Maternal and perinatal outcome in gestational diabetes among low socioeconomic status

Abstract

Materials and methods: The present study was a retrospective cohort study of 150 GDM patients who belongs from a low socioeconomic status over a period of 1 years. Another 100 women with normal profile patients without GDM who delivered during the same time were taken as controls. Demographic characteristic of women including age, body mass index (BMI), socioeconomic status, and religion was recorded and the diagnosis of GDM was made by GTT using 75 g glucose, if any one value is more than criteria (fasting blood sugar [BS] ≥92 mg/dl, 1 h BS ≥180 mg/dl, and 2 h BS ≥153 mg/dl), patients were labelled as GDM.