Glycemic Excursions in Type 1 Diabetes in Pregnancy: A Semiparametric Statistical Approach to Identify Sensitive Time Points during Gestation

Figure 3

Glucose velocities for women with type 1 diabetes according to LGA (solid line) and AGA (dashed line) birth outcomes. Rates of change in glucose for each group were calculated based on the first derivative (-axis, mg/dL/day) against gestation time (-axis, in days). The overlapping region in 95% pointwise confidence interval indicates the gestational time period in which both LGA and AGA have similar rates of change in glucose readings. It is illustrated here that women delivering LGA infants have more rapid decline in glucose velocity.