Factors in Gestational Diabetes Mellitus Predicting the Needs for Insulin Therapy

Table 1

Clinical variables and characteristics of patients with AIT and those with MNT only.

Variable	AIT	MNT
	Age, mean ± SD (years)	31.44 ± 5.29		30.85 ± 4.89	<0.001
Pregestational BMI, mean ± SD (kg/m^2)	24.62 ± 3.86	22.77 ± 3.55	<0.001
First visit SBP, mean ± SD (mmHg)	117.2 ± 12.59	113.70 ± 11.98	<0.001
First visit DBP, mean ± SD (mmHg)	74.24 ± 8.57	71.96 ± 8.53	<0.001
Gestational age of first visit, mean ± SD (week)	21.79 ± 7.01	21.25 ± 7.09	0.071
FBG of first visit, mean ± SD (mmol/L)	7.32 ± 2.88	6.33 ± 2.58	<0.001
Gestational age of OGTT, mean ± SD (week)	24.81 ± 4.46	25.63 ± 3.41	0.747
FBG at time of OGTT, mean ± SD (mmol/L)	6.52 ± 1.67	5.12 ± 0.98	<0.001
Frist OGTT 1 h plasma glucose, mean ± SD (mmol/L)	12.76 ± 4.14	10.75 ± 1.90	<0.001
Frist OGTT 2 h plasma glucose, mean ± SD (mmol/L)	11.28 ± 3.27	8.99 ± 1.98	<0.001
HbA1c at time of OGTT, mean ± SD (%)	6.65 ± 3.59	5.59 ± 0.83	0.000
Frequency of prior pregnancy (%)			0.728
0	376 (62.1)	473 (63.4)
1	190 (31.4)	231 (31.0)
2	40 (6.6)	42 (5.6)

Comparison of AIT and MNT.