Research Article
Obesity and Blood Pressure in 17-Year-Old Offspring of Mothers with Gestational Diabetes: Insights from the Jerusalem Perinatal Study
Table 1
Characteristics of the study population.
| JPS entire cohort,
1964–1976 | GDM
| No-recorded-GDM
|
| | Maternal age at delivery (years, mean ± SD) | | | | Paternal age at delivery (years, mean ± SD) | | | | Birth order (mean ± SD) | | | | Birth Weight (grams, mean ± SD) | | | | Male | | | | Female | | | | Birth place of mother's father (%): | | | | Israel |
10.6
|
12.9
| | West Asia |
28.0
|
31.7
| | North Africa |
21.2
|
24.4
| | Europe/America |
40.3
|
31.0
| | Maternal education (%): | | | | Unknown |
0.7
|
5.6
| | 0–8 years |
29.4
|
31.7
| | 9–12 years |
31.7
|
35.8
| | 13+ years |
38.2
|
26.8
| | Socio economic status (%) | | | | High |
36.9
|
33.1
| | Middle |
45.4
|
41.3
| | Low |
17.7
|
25.6
| | Maternal health condition (%) | | | | Pre-eclampsia |
14.4
|
3.4
|
| | JPS subcohort 1974–1976 | | | | Prepregnancy maternal BMI (mean ± SD) | | | | Weight gain during pregnancy (mean ± SD) | | |
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