Plasma Levels of Free Fatty Acids in Women with Gestational Diabetes and Its Intrinsic and Extrinsic Determinants: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Table 2

Metaregression analysis on the influence of several cofactors on the mean free fatty acid plasma levels.

Characteristic	Estimate	95% CI	value			Number of studies
Gestational age at inclusion	-0.0741	-0.1436 to -0.0047	0.036	78	31	12
Pregestational BMI	0.0160	-0.0759 to 0.1078	0.733	61	3.4	9
Fasting glucose	0.0008	-0.0229 to 0.0245	0.947	88	0.1	7
Fasting insulin	0.0035	-0.0625 to 0.0695	0.917	58	0	7
Mean maternal age	-0.1542	-0.3765 to 0.0682	0.174	84	18	11
Year of publication	0.0143	-0.0152 to 0.0438	0.343	84	8.6	12