Maternal Serum Ferritin and Gestational Impaired Glucose Tolerance

Abstract

The findings indicate that there was no evidence of preexisting iron deficiency in the third trimester before the diagnosis of GIGT, while serum ferritin was even increased in the GIGT patients, a phenomenon that could have reflected the glucose intolerance. Serum ferritin is probably an unreliable index for maternal iron therapy in these patients, and the role of iron therapy in GIGT patients remains to be established.