AUG 7, 2026 · JOURNAL ARTICLE
Deciphering the pre-pregnancy BMI-GDM link: the mediating and interacting role of early-pregnancy fatty liver index
Scientific Reports
Secondary analysis of a prospective cohort identifying a potential mechanistic pathway (hepatic steatosis) linking pre-pregnancy obesity to GDM in an Asian population, with threshold effects and synergistic interactions, but limited by observational design and single-population generalizability.
Reported
Sample size586
FLI_log threshold1.12
Odds ratio above FLI_log threshold165.454