Table 2.

Baseline characteristics of women according to their diagnosis of gestational diabetes mellitus in the index pregnancy.

Measure	No Gestational Diabetes Mellitus (n = 431)	Gestational diabetes mellitus (n = 87)	p-value
Visceral adiposity depth, cm	5.2 ± 1.1	6.3 ± 1.3	0.001
Gestational age at visceral adiposity depth measurement, weeks	14.4 ± 3.0	14.1 ± 3.2	0.4
Age, years	26.0 ± 5.7	27.5 ± 5.8	0.02
Number (%) with ≥2 prior births	169 (39.3%)	39 (44.8%)	0.3
Pre-pregnancy body mass index, kg/m2	24.4 ± 4.5	25.4 ± 4.6	0.04
Educational attainment, years	11.4 ± 2.1	11.4 ± 1.6	0.96
Number (%) smoker	10 (2.3%)	1 (1.1%)	0.5

All data are shown as a mean (SD) unless otherwise specified.