Endocrinology Department, St George Public Hospital, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
Front Endocrinol (Lausanne). 2022 Jun 24;13:900153. doi: 10.3389/fendo.2022.900153. eCollection 2022.
There is an emerging Muslim and diabetic population in the United States and other Western countries and majority of pregnant women and patients with diabetes mellitus choose to fast during Ramadan. Fasting during Ramadan in pregnant women with diabetes may represent a 'perfect storm' of metabolic disturbances including hyperglycemia, hypoglycemia and ketosis. Recent continuous and flash glucose monitoring data suggests increased glycemic variability (fasting hypo- and post-Iftar hyperglycemia) in non-pregnant patients with diabetes during Ramadan. Only five small-scale studies, predominantly focused on women with gestational diabetes mellitus in Muslim-majority nations have explored maternal glycemic outcomes during Ramadan which is associated with lower mean blood glucose levels and higher frequency of fasting hypoglycemia. Data is limited however on important clinical outcomes such as symptomatic and serious hypoglycemia requiring hospitalization. Results have been conflicting regarding maternal Ramadan fasting and association with fetal outcomes in women without diabetes. Only one recently published study reported on perinatal outcomes in pregnant women with gestational diabetes which found no effect of Ramadan exposure on mean birthweight or macrosomia frequency but lower neonatal hypoglycemia prevalence, however a significant limitation was lack of documentation of maternal fasting status. At this stage, due to paucity of data, the current medical recommendation is against Ramadan fasting for pregnant Muslim women with diabetes. Large-scale population-based studies are warranted regarding maternal and fetal outcomes in pregnant fasting women with diabetes and such studies should characterize maternal fasting status and have meaningful and consistent clinical outcomes. High-quality data derived from these studies can assist clinicians in providing more evidence-based advice to safely navigate both mother and fetus through a potentially challenging pregnancy.
在美国和其他西方国家,穆斯林和糖尿病患者群体不断壮大,大多数孕妇和糖尿病患者选择在斋月期间封斋。对于糖尿病孕妇来说,在斋月期间封斋可能会导致一系列代谢紊乱,包括高血糖、低血糖和酮症酸中毒。最近的连续和闪光血糖监测数据表明,在斋月期间,非妊娠糖尿病患者的血糖变异性增加(空腹低血糖和开斋餐后高血糖)。仅有五项小规模研究主要关注穆斯林占多数的国家的妊娠期糖尿病女性,探索了她们在斋月期间的血糖结果,发现平均血糖水平较低,空腹低血糖的频率较高。然而,关于重要的临床结局,如需要住院治疗的症状性和严重低血糖,数据有限。关于没有糖尿病的女性的母亲封斋和与胎儿结局的关系,结果存在争议。只有一项最近发表的研究报告了妊娠期糖尿病孕妇的围产期结局,发现斋月暴露对平均出生体重或巨大儿频率没有影响,但新生儿低血糖的患病率较低,但一个显著的局限性是缺乏对母亲封斋状况的记录。在现阶段,由于数据有限,目前的医学建议是反对糖尿病孕妇在斋月期间封斋。需要进行大规模的基于人群的研究,以了解糖尿病孕妇在斋月期间禁食对母婴结局的影响,这些研究应描述母亲的禁食状况,并具有有意义和一致的临床结局。从这些研究中获得的高质量数据可以帮助临床医生提供更具循证的建议,以安全地帮助母亲和胎儿度过可能具有挑战性的孕期。