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Computational modelling of maternal glucose adaptation and fetal growth in pregnancy
The project will develop and apply tools to understand blood glucose regulation in pregnancy and help identify women at risk of maternal and fetal complications earlier. This project will combine dynamic modelling, time series analysis and machine learning to analyse clinical data and data from continuous glucose monitoring collected throughout pregnancy. You will investigate changes in glucose patterns and their links to gestational diabetes, fetal growth and labour complications.
Primary supervisor: Natasha Khovanova - N.Khovanova@warwick.ac.uk
Co-supervisor: Dimitris Grammatopoulos (Warwick Medical School)
Project detail:
This PhD project aims to develop and apply mathematical and computational methods to describe changes in glucose regulation during pregnancy and assess their clinical value for earlier identification of women at risk of maternal and foetal complications. The student will join a team of academics and clinical professionals working with continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) data collected at approximately 12, 28 and 36 weeks of pregnancy. The mathematical component will apply time-series analysis, dynamic modelling and machine learning to characterise glucose variations. Building on methods developed within our group, the student will identify glucose excursions, estimate model parameters and track their changes across pregnancy. The methodological outcomes will be reproducible measures of glucose dynamics and an assessment of the information they provide beyond conventional CGM measures. These patterns will be compared across controls, women following bariatric surgery and women who used GLP-1 receptor agonists before conception. The clinical component will examine whether the derived measures are associated with gestational diabetes and subsequent pregnancy outcomes, including abnormal foetal growth and recorded labour complications. The project would suit a student with a background in engineering, mathematics, physics, computer science or a related discipline.
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