The Alteration of Carnitine Metabolism in Second Trimester in GDM and a Nomogram for Predicting Macrosomia

Table 3

Clinical characteristics and ACs of women with GDM and matched control women. Values are presented as the for continuous variables and percentage for dichotomous variables. Cases and controls were matched for birth day, age, delivery mode, and number of fetuses with a 2 : 1 ratio. value for Student’s -test (continuous variables) or chi-squared test (dichotomous variables).

	GDM	Control	value
Total	64	128
Maternal age (years)			0.28
Height (cm)			0.35
Prepregnancy weight (kg)			0.21
Prepregnancy BMI (kg/m^2)			0.03
Weight gain (kg)			0.02
Gestational week at delivery (weeks)			0.54
Nulliparous	76.40	80.20	0.64
ART	19.6	14.2	0.04
Smoker	7.1	8.0	0.35
Birth weight (g)			0.03
C0 (μmol/L)			0.03
C2			0.03
C3			0.02
C4DC+C5OH			0.01
C6DC			0.03
C8			0.04
C16			0.04
C18			0.02
C18:1			0.04