Table 2.
Rates of gestational diabetes mellitus by infertility status overall and by race and ethnicity: United States, 2015–2020.
| Race/ethnicity | Total pregnancies number (%row)a |
Gestational diabetes mellitus |
|
|---|---|---|---|
| Absent number (%row) | Present number (%row) |
||
| All race/ethnicities | |||
| Spontaneous conceptions | 21,625,298 (6.4) | 20,226,685 (93.5) | 1,398,613 (6.5) |
| Any infertility treatment | 318,086 (0.2) | 283,140 (89.0) | 34,946 (11.0) |
| Assisted reproductive technology | 188,380 (0.1) | 167,803 (89.1) | 20,577 (10.9) |
| Fertility-enhancing drugs | 132,954 (0.1) | 118,330 (89.0) | 14,624 (11.0) |
| Non-Hispanic White | |||
| Spontaneous conceptions | 11,087,904 (5.6) | 10,449,886 (94.2) | 638,018 (5.8) |
| Any infertility treatment | 222,271 (0.2) | 206,798 (90.6) | 21,473 (9.4) |
| Assisted reproductive technology | 129,667 (0.1) | 117,853 (90.9) | 11,814 (9.1) |
| Fertility-enhancing drugs | 100,166 (0.1) | 90,488 (90.3) | 9678 (9.7) |
| Non-Hispanic Black | |||
| Spontaneous conceptions | 3,109,235 (5.2) | 2,945,429 (94.7) | 163,806 (5.3) |
| Any infertility treatment | 14,793 (0.05) | 13,152 (88.9) | 1641 (11.1) |
| Assisted reproductive technology | 8884 (0.03) | 7865 (88.5) | 1019 (11.5) |
| Fertility-enhancing drugs | 5722 (0.02) | 5079 (88.8) | 643 (11.2) |
| Hispanic | |||
| Spontaneous conceptions | 5,186,144 (7.1) | 4,817,953 (92.9) | 368,191 (7.1) |
| Any infertility treatment | 26,710 (0.07) | 23,302 (87.2) | 3408 (12.8) |
| Assisted reproductive technology | 15,540 (0.04) | 13,610 (87.6) | 1930 (12.4) |
| Fertility-enhancing drugs | 11,424 (0.03) | 9917 (86.8) | 1506 (13.2) |