Table 1.

Anthropometric and clinical characteristics of GDM and control patients and their offspring (placental samples).

Characteristics	Control (n = 8)	GDM (n = 8)	p value
Delivery mode	Cesarean section	Cesarean section
Maternal age (years)	30.52 ± 4.5	31.43 ± 4.4	0.4
Parity	1.36 ± 0.7	1.45 ± 0.7	0.6
Gestational age at partum	38.9 ± 1.8	39.2 ± 3.05	0.6
Newborn weight (g)	3270 ± 500	3319 ± 457	0.7
Maternal pregravid BMI (Kg/m2)	23.31 ± 4.2	27.13 ± 4.6	0.001
Placental weight (g)	549.2 ± 39.9	612.3 ± 82.6	0.17

Data represent mean ± SEM. BMI: body mass index. ^∗p < 0.05 versus control group by Mann–Whitney U test.