Table 1.

Clinical and inflammatory characteristics of the women

	Mean (SD)
Clinical characteristics
Age (years)	30.9 (4.6)
Prepregnancy BMI (kg/m2)	29.14 (3.81)
Obese, n (%)	117/335 (35%)
Highly educated, n (%)	192/300 (64%)
Primipara, n (%)	164/335 (49%)
Smoking before pregnancy, n (%)	73/302 (24%)
Smoking at early pregnancy, n (%)	17/301 (5.6%)
Gestational weeks at the study visit	13.8 (2.2)
Inflammatory and metabolomic markers
hsCRP (mg/l), n = 335	4.69 (2.43)
GlycA (mmol/l), n = 335	1.19 (0.10)
LPS activity (EU/ml), n = 146	0.154 (0.04)
Gut microbiome metagenomic diversity
Shannon gene diversity index, n = 321	16.71 (0.73)
Gene-richness, n = 321	465,556.21 (107,818.11)
Shannon species diversity index, n = 321	2.67 (0.31)
Species richness, n = 321	242.64 (58.44)