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Is the Current Cut Point for Glycated Haemoglobin (HbA1c) Correct for Diagnosing Diabetes Mellitus in Premenopausal Women? Evidence to Inform Discussion (2023)
Journal Article
Holland, D., Fryer, A. A., Stedman, M., Hanna, F. W. F., Duff, C. J., Green, L., …Wu, P. (2023). Is the Current Cut Point for Glycated Haemoglobin (HbA1c) Correct for Diagnosing Diabetes Mellitus in Premenopausal Women? Evidence to Inform Discussion. Diabetes Therapy, https://doi.org/10.1007/s13300-023-01482-6

Women are on average diagnosed with diabetes mellitus at later age than men but have higher mortality. As the diagnosis of diabetes mellitus is primarily based on HbA1c, the use of a non-specific reference range and cut point for diabetes mellitus th... Read More about Is the Current Cut Point for Glycated Haemoglobin (HbA1c) Correct for Diagnosing Diabetes Mellitus in Premenopausal Women? Evidence to Inform Discussion.

Substance Use in Pregnancy and its Association With Cardiovascular Events (2023)
Journal Article
Evans, K., Wu, P., Mamas, M. A., Irwin, C., Kang, P., Perlow, J. H., …Gulati, M. (2023). Substance Use in Pregnancy and its Association With Cardiovascular Events. JACC: Advances, 2(8), 100619. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jacadv.2023.100619

Background
Substance use and cardiovascular (CV) events are increasing among pregnant women in the United States, but association between substance use in pregnancy and CV events remains unknown.

Objectives
The purpose of this stu... Read More about Substance Use in Pregnancy and its Association With Cardiovascular Events.

Diabetes detection in women with gestational diabetes and polycystic ovarian syndrome (2023)
Journal Article
Hanna, F., Wu, P., Heald, A., & Fryer, A. (2023). Diabetes detection in women with gestational diabetes and polycystic ovarian syndrome. BMJ, 382, Article e071675. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj-2022-071675

Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) and polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS) represent two of the highest risk factors for development of type 2 diabetes mellitus in young women. As these increasingly common conditions generally affect younger women, e... Read More about Diabetes detection in women with gestational diabetes and polycystic ovarian syndrome.

Hypertensive disorders of pregnancy. (2023)
Journal Article
Wu, P., Green, M., & Myers, J. (2023). Hypertensive disorders of pregnancy. BMJ, 381, Article e071653. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj-2022-071653

Hypertensive disorders of pregnancy (HDP) are one of the most commonly occurring complications of pregnancy and include chronic hypertension, gestational hypertension, and pre-eclampsia. New developments in early pregnancy screening to identify women... Read More about Hypertensive disorders of pregnancy..

The Effect of the COVID-19 Pandemic on HbA1c Testing: Prioritization of High-Risk Cases and Impact of Social Deprivation (2023)
Journal Article
Holland, D., Heald, A. H., Hanna, F. F., Stedman, M., Wu, P., Sim, J., …Fryer, A. A. (2023). The Effect of the COVID-19 Pandemic on HbA1c Testing: Prioritization of High-Risk Cases and Impact of Social Deprivation. Diabetes Therapy, 14, 691-707. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13300-023-01380-x

INTRODUCTION: Studies show that the COVID-19 pandemic disproportionately affected people with diabetes and those from disadvantaged backgrounds. During the first 6 months of the UK lockdown,?>?6.6 M glycated haemoglobin (HbA1c) tests were missed. We... Read More about The Effect of the COVID-19 Pandemic on HbA1c Testing: Prioritization of High-Risk Cases and Impact of Social Deprivation.

Home blood pressure monitoring detects unrevealed hypertension in women with a history of preeclampsia: Results of the BP-PRESELF study. (2022)
Journal Article
Muijsers, H. E., Wu, P., van der Heijden, O. W., Wijnberger, L. D., van Bijsterveldt, C., Buijs, C., …Maas, A. H. (2022). Home blood pressure monitoring detects unrevealed hypertension in women with a history of preeclampsia: Results of the BP-PRESELF study. American Journal of Preventive Cardiology, 100429 - ?. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajpc.2022.100429

OBJECTIVES: The risk of cardiovascular disease more than doubles after hypertensive disorders of pregnancy. As early onset chronic hypertension contributes to cardiovascular risk, implementation of screening strategies, using home blood pressure moni... Read More about Home blood pressure monitoring detects unrevealed hypertension in women with a history of preeclampsia: Results of the BP-PRESELF study..

Speed of recovery of testing for management of diabetes in the aftermath of COVID-19 is slower in areas of greater social deprivation: findings from a UK study (2022)
Presentation / Conference
Holland, D., Heald, A., Hanna, F., Wu, P., & Fry, A. (2022, September). Speed of recovery of testing for management of diabetes in the aftermath of COVID-19 is slower in areas of greater social deprivation: findings from a UK study. Poster presented at 58 th EASD Annual Meeting of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes, Stockholm, Sweden

Background and aims: We have previously shown that, during the first 6 months of the UK COVID-19-associated lockdown, >6.6M HbA1c tests were missed/delayed, including 1.41M missed/delayed in people with diabetes (0.51M in those with suboptimal contro... Read More about Speed of recovery of testing for management of diabetes in the aftermath of COVID-19 is slower in areas of greater social deprivation: findings from a UK study.

Health Care Professional's Knowledge of Pregnancy Complications and Women's Cardiovascular Health: An International Study Utilizing Social Media (2022)
Journal Article
Wu, P., Mamas, M. A., & Gulati, M. (2022). Health Care Professional's Knowledge of Pregnancy Complications and Women's Cardiovascular Health: An International Study Utilizing Social Media. Journal of Women's Health, https://doi.org/10.1089/jwh.2021.0298

Background
Despite guidelines recommending the evaluation of adverse pregnancy outcomes (APOs) as a part of the atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD) risk assessment in women, there is limited awareness of this issue in healthcare professio... Read More about Health Care Professional's Knowledge of Pregnancy Complications and Women's Cardiovascular Health: An International Study Utilizing Social Media.