Table 3.

Uterine artery (UtA) pulsatility index (PI) centiles and Umbilical artery (UmA) pulsatility Index (PI) centiles in women with GDM and women with uncomplicated pregnancies (control group), prior-to, immediately after and one hour after the exercise bout.

	UtA PI Centiles		UmA PI Centiles
	GDM Group (N = 25)	Control Group (N = 25)	GDM Group (N = 25)	Control Group (N = 25)
Prior to the exercise bout	42.8 ± 29.9	53.1 ± 30.3	47.0 ± 26.9	44.5± 29.4
Immediately after the exercise bout	26.6 ± 22.7 †	56.7 ± 27.0 *	44.3 ± 30.7	43.5 ± 31.9
1 h after the exercise bout	26.8 ± 24.1 #	50.9 ± 26.9 *	42.0 ± 34.5	52.7 ± 32.6

Data are expressed in mean ± SD. Statistical significance was set at p < 0.05. Data were analyzed using repeated measure ANOVA; Bonferroni correction was employed as post hoc test. The asterisk (*) indicates a statistically significant difference between the two groups (women with GDM compared to women with uncomplicated pregnancies (p < 0.01)). The dagger (†) indicated a statistically significant difference within the groups (between prior-to and immediately after the exercise (p < 0.05)), and the hashtag (#) indicates a statistically significant difference within the groups (between prior-to and one hour after the exercise (p < 0.01)).