Table 4.

Regression coefficient (standard error) of VAT (kg) at 15 weeks in pregnancy and at 59 weeks postpartum and Spearman correlation between VAT (kg) and cardiometabolic risk factors at 59 weeks postpartum.

	-----Pregnancy----		-----Postpartum----		-----Postpartum----
	15 weeks		59 weeks		59 weeks
	‡β (SE)	p-value	‡β (SE)	p-value	†r	p-value
DBP (mm Hg)	0.775 (0.796)	0.3330	0.089 (0.568)	0.8761	−0.10	0.4151
SBP (mm Hg)	1.022 (1.073)	0.3433	1.011 (0.969)	0.3011	−0.06	0.5938
Triglycerides (mg/dL)	14.396 (4.415)	0.0016	11.769 (6.124)	0.0596	0.41	0.0003
Chol (mg/dL)	3.971 (3.986)	0.3219	−0.872 (3.411)	0.7992	0.20	0.0912
HDL (mg/dL)	−2.775 (1.966)	0.1618	−3.209 (1.328)	0.0189	−0.26	0.0280
CHOL/HDL (ratio)	0.183 (0.082)	0.0279	0.159 (0.084)	0.0625	0.37	0.0012
Friedewalk LDL Chol (mg/dL)	3.889 (3.433)	0.2604	0.205 (2.898)	0.9439	0.28	0.0151
Insulin (uU/mL)	1.962 (0.570)	0.0009	0.495 (0.726)	0.4978	0.32	0.0051
Glucose (mg/dL)	1.933 (0.860)	0.0272	0.494 (1.075)	0.6475	0.29	0.0116
HOMA-IR	9.404 (2.719)	0.0008	2.910 (3.387)	0.3939	0.36	0.0017
C-Peptide (ng/mL)	0.223 (0.046)	0.0001	0.074 (0.078)	0.3507	0.52	0.0001
Glycated serum protein (umol/L)	-	-	−3.487 (4.184)	0.4079	−0.34	0.0033
Glycated albumin (%)	-	-	−0.159 (0.150)	0.2947	−0.38	0.0010
Albumin (g/dL)	-	-	0.003 (0.027)	0.9187	−0.03	0.8004
Leptin (ug/L)	3.640 (1.928)	0.0624	8.777 (4.273)	0.0446	0.40	0.0005
Adiponectin HMW (mg/dL)	−543.58 (278.91)	0.0546	−195.96 (222.21)	0.3815	−0.17	0.1539
TNF-α (pg/mL)	0.099	0.0526	-	-	-	-
IL-6 (pg/mL)	0.34	0.0014	-	-	-	-

^‡Regression model included VAT (kg), baseline metabolic variable, group, ethnicity, baseline age, baseline weight, baseline BMI, and weeks postpartum. GDM was an additional covariate for the 59 week regression models. Statistically significant p-values are in bold.

^†Spearman correlations between VAT (kg) and cardiometabolic risk factors at 59 weeks postpartum