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Plasma levels of relaxin-2 are higher and correlated to C-peptide levels in early gestational diabetes mellitus

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Acknowledgements

The authors would like to thank Birgitte Ekholm, the Diabetes Research Laboratory, Lund University, for excellent technical assistance with sample preparation and some of the laboratory analyses. The authors would also like to thank midwives and nurses at the maternal health care centers of Lindängen in Malmö, Paletten in Staffanstorp and in Dalby for valuable assistance in the recruitment of healthy pregnant women serving as controls. The study was funded by grants from Sydvästra Skånes Diabetesförening (reg no 1040390) to Dr. Magnus Hillman, Gorthon Foundation (reg no 2015-12-27) to Dr. Charlotta Nilsson and Skåne University Hospital Funding and Donations (reg no 1400741) to Dr. Mona Landin-Olsson. The funders were not included in performing any parts of the study.

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  1. Faculty of Medicine, Department of Clinical Sciences, Diabetes Research Laboratory, Lund University, Lund, Sweden

    Yoatzin Alonso Lopez, Jonatan Dereke, Mona Landin-Olsson & Magnus Hillman

  2. Skåne University Hospital, Department of Endocrinology, Lund University, Lund, Sweden

    Mona Landin-Olsson

  3. Skåne University Hospital, Department of Obstetrics, Lund University, Lund, Sweden

    Helena Strevens

  4. Helsingborg Hospital, Department of Pediatrics, Helsingborg, Sweden

    Charlotta Nilsson

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All procedures performed were in accordance with the ethical standards and approved by the Regional Ethical Review Board in Lund (2014/78 and 2014/383). The study was performed in agreement with the 1964 Declaration of Helsinki and its later amendments. This study does not contain any studies with animals performed by any of the authors.

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Alonso Lopez, Y., Dereke, J., Landin-Olsson, M. et al. Plasma levels of relaxin-2 are higher and correlated to C-peptide levels in early gestational diabetes mellitus. Endocrine 57, 545–547 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12020-017-1354-x

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