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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 May 7.
Published in final edited form as: Am J Gastroenterol. 2016 Mar 22;111(5):658–664. doi: 10.1038/ajg.2016.57

Table 2.

Year 25 Characteristics of Women with One or More Births and Liver Attenuation Measurement at Year 25 by History of GDM (n= 1,115)*

Characteristic GDM (n=124) Non-GDM (n=991) P
Age, median (IQR) years 51 (8) 50 (6) 0.48
BMI, median (IQR) kg/m2 31.1 (12.3) 30.0 (10.7) 0.13
HOMA-IR, median (IQR) 2.6 (2.9) 2.0 (2.2) 0.04
Diabetes mellitus, n (%) 61 (49) 75 (7.6) < 0.01
Total cholesterol, median (IQR) mg/dL 188 (50.5) 192 (48) 0.13
LDL, median (IQR) mg/dL 107 (45) 109.5 (43) 0.26
HDL, median (IQR) mg/dL 57 (22.5) 60 (22) 0.09
Triglycerides, median (IQR) mg/dL 87 (57.5) 83 (56) 0.12
Waist circumference, median (IQR) 93.5 (26.3) 90 (22.3) 0.11
Hypertension, n (%) 53 (43) 376 (38) 0.30
Total parity > 2, n (%) 40 (32) 238 (24) 0.05
Alcohol use, mean +/−SD units/week 2.4 +/− 3.1 3.0 +/− 3.8 0.14
NAFLD§, n (%) 17 (14) 58 (5.8) < 0.01
*

All variables have < 1% missing data

Calculated by Mann Whitney U test for continuous variables, chi squared for categorical variables unless otherwise specified

Calculated by student’s t test

§

NAFLD defined by liver attenuation ≤ 40 Hounsfield units