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. 2018 May 31;7(7):859–869. doi: 10.1530/EC-18-0076

Table 4.

Participants’ parents’ education and medical histories categorised by subgroup (n = 1941).

Characteristic Mean (s.d.)/n (%) No. missing
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.