TY - JOUR T1 - Adequate maternal pre-conceptional folate status may reduce the risk of gestational diabetes mellitus JF - Evidence Based Nursing JO - Evid Based Nurs SP - 76 LP - 76 DO - 10.1136/ebnurs-2019-103157 VL - 24 IS - 3 AU - Karen Best AU - Tim J Green Y1 - 2021/07/01 UR - http://ebn.bmj.com/content/24/3/76.abstract N2 - Commentary on: Li M, Li S, Chavarro JE, et al. Prepregnancy habitual intakes of total, supplemental, and food folate and risk of gestational diabetes mellitus: a prospective cohort study. Diabetes Care 2019;42:1034–41.Recent data show that gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) prevalence has increased during the past 20 years.1 Pre-pregnancy supplementation with folic acid may be a simple, low-cost strategy to reduce maternal and infant morbidities associated with GDM.Further studies are needed to identify the optimal dose of pre-pregnancy folic acid to reduce the incidence of GDM and to investigate long-term effects in offspring.Rates of GDM are rising worldwide and associated with adverse perinatal outcomes and long-term cardiometabolic risk in mothers and their offspring.1 This large prospective cohort study investigates the association between pre-pregnancy habitual folate intake and the risk GDM.2 The purpose of this study was to … ER -