The Predictive Effects of Early Pregnancy Lipid Profiles and Fasting Glucose on the Risk of Gestational Diabetes Mellitus Stratified by Body Mass Index

Table 2

Maternal early pregnancy fasting glucose and lipid profiles.

	Healthy	GDM
	Early pregnancy
Cholesterol (mM)	4.44 ± 0.78	4.57 ± 0.83	<0.001
Triacylglycerols (mM)	1.17 ± 0.91	1.38 ± 2.16	<0.001
TG/HDL-C ratio	0.71 ± 0.46	0.92 ± 1.61	<0.001
LDL-C/HDL-C ratio	1.38 ± 0.52	1.51 ± 0.61	<0.001
Fasting glucose (mM)	4.73 ± 0.39	4.96 ± 0.45	<0.001
Lipid detection at weeks’ gestation	10.76 ± 2.57	10.70 ± 2.59	0.635
Fasting glucose detection at weeks’ gestation	10.83 ± 2.86	10.77 ± 2.94	0.499

GDM: gestational diabetes mellitus; TG/HDL-C: triglyceride to high-density lipoprotein cholesterol ratio; LDL-C/HDL-C: low-density lipoprotein cholesterol/high-density lipoprotein cholesterol ratio.