Ueno Mariko
Tokyo Women's Medical University, JapanTitle: Application of a Pedometer for the Management of Impaired Glucose Tolerance in Pregnant Women
Abstract
The proper management of impaired
glucose tolerance (IGT) in pregnant women has a great impact on the prognoses
of both the mother and the infant, and is of interest to both obstetricians and
diabetologists. Although nutritional intervention along with insulin treatment
in the mainstream approach of IGT treatment in pregnant women, exercise
intervention is another important component of the IGT management.
One explanation why the
effect of exercise for glucose metabolism is controversial might be the
problems with quantifying the amount of exercise. Thus, we used pedometers to
quantitatively assess the amount of exercise performed by pregnant women with
IGT. A pedometer is a useful tool for objective exercise evaluation. With the
widespread use of smartphones equipped with pedometer function, exercise by
walking is easily monitored and utilized in both healthy pregnant women and
pregnant women with obesity and IGT.
Although it might be difficult to prove the
effect of pedometer for the non-pregnant patients due to the problem with their
compliance, we succeeded in proving the effect of exercise therapy with using
pedometers for pregnant women with IGT.
We present the present
perspective on the use of a pedometer in the management of IGT in pregnant
women by introducing our recently published work.
Biography
Mariko
Ueno has graduated Faculty of Medicine, Tokyo
Women’s Medical University, Japan in 2008, and she has completed her PHD from same
university in 2020.
She
became a medical specialist of Obstetrics and Gynecology in 2013, and a medical
specialist of Perinatal and Neonatal medicine in 2017.
She
has been an Assistant Professor of Departments
of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Adachi Medical Center, Tokyo Women’s Medical
University, Japan since 2016.
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