Table 1.
Maternal Baseline Characteristics
| Gained Less than the IOM Recommendations (n=175) |
Gain Within the IOM Recommendations (n=92) |
Gained More than IOM Recommendations (n=368) |
p | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Age (yrs) | 30.0 ± 6.1 | 29.3 ± 5.7 | 28.3 ± 5.8 | <0.01 |
| Nulliparous | 42 (24.0%) | 22 (24.2%) | 118 (32.1%) | 0.09 |
| Race | 0.27 | |||
| White | 26 (15.8%) | 10 (11.9%) | 44 (12.9%) | |
| Black | 74 (44.9%) | 34 (40.5%) | 184 (54.1%) | |
| Hispanic | 60 (36.4%) | 35 (41.7%) | 98 (28.8%) | |
| Public Insurance | 127 (78.9%) | 68 (81.0%) | 292 (86.4%) | 0.09 |
| Maternal Education | 0.46 | |||
| Less than 12th Grade | 53 (33.1%) | 20 (23.8%) | 89 (26.7%) | |
| 12th Grade | 40 (25.0%) | 19 (22.6%) | 98 (29.3%) | |
| Greater than 12th Grade | 17 (10.6%) | 11 (13.1%) | 38 (11.4%) | |
| Smoking | 29 (16.5%) | 10 (10.9%) | 66 (18.1%) | 0.50 |
| Chronic Hypertension | 17 (9.8%) | 9 (9.8%) | 45 (12.2%) | 0.64 |
| Prior Cesarean | 38 (21.7%) | 18 (19.6%) | 89 (24.2%) | 0.59 |
| Gestational Weight Gain after GDM Diagnosis (kg) | 0.52 ± 2.7 | 3.4 ± 1.2 | 6.9 ± 3.5 | <0.01 |
| BMI (kg/m2) | 30.8 ± 8.3 | 29.9 ± 7.8 | 33.4 ± 8.6 | <0.01 |
| BMI Category | <0.01 | |||
| Underweight | 5 (2.9%) | 1 (1.1%) | 1 (0.3%) | |
| Normal Weight | 41 (23.4%) | 28 (30.4%) | 38 (10.3%) | |
| Over Weight | 40 (22.9%) | 17 (18.5%) | 78 (21.2%) | |
| Obese | 89 (50.9%) | 46 (50.0%) | 251 (68.2%) |
Data presented as mean ± standard deviation or n (%)
IOM = Institute of Medicine