Table 4. The association between serum adiponectin (ng/mL) and BMI in case and control subjects.

BMI, kg/m2	Adiponectin, ng/mL		p value
	GDM	Healthy
< 25	5.57 ± 2.03	8.11 ± 3.50	0.005†
≥ 25	2.65 ± 0.19	7.25 ± 3.69	0.003†
p value	0.01†	0.50†	0.002*

BMI, body mass index; GDM, gestational diabetes mellitus; ANOVA, analysis of variance.

^*p < 0.05 considered significant by ANOVA test; ^†p value obtained by t-test.