Table 6.
Association between modes of delivery and presence of gestational diabetes mellitus by number of different criteria.
| GDM by criteria | Delivery n (%) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Emergency caesarean | Post-LSCS caesarean | Other | Abnormal | Normal | Total | |
| 0 | 35 (13.1) | 20 (7.5) | 14 (5.2) | 69 (25.7) | 199 (74.3) | 268 (92.1) |
| 1 | 3 (20.0) | 1 (6.6) | 1 (6.6) | 5 (33.3) | 10 (66.7) | 15 (5.1) |
| 2 | 2 (25.0) | 1 (12.5) | 0 | 3 (37.5) | 5 (62.5) | 8 (2.8) |
| Total | 40 (13.7) | 22 (7.6) | 15 (5.2) | 77 (26.5) | 214 (73.5) | 291 (100) |
GDM: gestational diabetes mellitus, LSCS: lower segment caesarean section.
χ2 = 0.93, df = 2, P = 0.63, not significant, contingency coefficient = 0.056 (poor association).