Table 4.
Participants’ parents’ education and medical histories categorised by subgroup (n = 1941).
Characteristic | Mean (s.d.)/n (%) | No. missing | |||
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GDM + PCOS (n = 105) | GDM + non-PCOS (n = 909) | Non-GDM + PCOS (n = 69) | Controls (n = 858) | ||
Education of participants’ parentsa | |||||
Highest education of either parent | 1/14/0/6 | ||||
Basic or less (%) | 25 (24.0) | 188 (21.0) | 10 (14.5) | 142 (16.7) | |
Secondary (%) | 61 (58.7) | 526 (58.8) | 42 (60.9) | 465 (54.3) | |
Lower-level tertiary (%) | 6 (5.8) | 61 (6.8) | 7 (10.1) | 86 (10.1) | |
Upper-level tertiary (%) | 12 (11.5) | 120 (13.4) | 10 (14.5) | 161 (18.9) | |
Medical history of participants’ parentsa | |||||
Pregnancy history of participants’ mothers | |||||
GDMb (%) | 2 (2.2) | 25 (3.1) | 1 (1.5) | 13 (1.6) | 4/92/14/55 |
GDM at any pregnancy (%) | 6 (5.9) | 80 (9.3) | 2 (3.2) | 32 (4.0) | 3/47/7/48 |
Pre-eclampsiab (%) | 7 (7.9) | 46 (5.4) | 1 (1.5) | 35 (4.4) | 16/75/4/64 |
Medical history of participants’ mothers | |||||
Diabetes mellitus (%) | 16 (15.5) | 136 (15.4) | 6 (9.5) | 52 (6.3) | 2/25/6/27 |
Hypertension (%) | 27 (27.0) | 255 (29.0) | 13 (20.3) | 180 (21.8) | 5/31/5/34 |
Myocardial infarction (%) | 2 (2.0) | 13 (1.5) | 2 (3.2) | 15 (1.8) | 3/26/6/27 |
Stroke (%) | 1 (1.0) | 26 (2.9) | 4 (6.3) | 14 (1.7) | 4/23/5/28 |
Medical history of participants’ fathers | |||||
Diabetes mellitus (%) | 25 (24.8) | 159 (18.5) | 8 (13.1) | 99 (12.0) | 4/48/8/34 |
Hypertension (%) | 28 (28.9) | 247 (29.4) | 18 (30.0) | 177 (21.8) | 8/70/9/45 |
Myocardial infarction (%) | 11 (11.2) | 91 (10.6) | 5 (8.3) | 79 (9.6) | 7/50/9/36 |
Stroke (%) | 3 (3.1) | 47 (5.5) | 2 (3.4) | 30 (3.6) | 7/47/10/36 |
aAs reported by the participants at recruitment in this study; bduring the pregnancy when the study participant was born.
GDM, gestational diabetes mellitus; PCOS, polycystic ovary syndrome.