Placental Ras Regulates Inflammation Associated with Maternal Obesity

Table 1

Patient characteristics.

	Lean cohort ( patients)	Obese cohort ( patients)
Maternal age	31.8 ± 1.1	32.27 ± 0.5
Prepregnancy BMI (kg/m^2)	23.6 ± 0.6^#	40.2 ± 2.1^∗
Delivery BMI (kg/m^2)	29.0 ± 0.9^#	42.0 ± 1.9^∗
Fasting OGTT (mmol/l)	4.3 ± 0.1	4.5 ± 0.1
1 h OGTT (mmol/l)	6.1 ± 0.3	7.2 ± 0.3
2 h OGTT (mmol/l)	5.5 ± 0.2	5.5 ± 0.3
Gestational age (weeks)	38.8 ± 0.2	38.8 ± 0.1
Neonate birth weight (g)	3406 ± 122	3543 ± 139
Fetal gender	8 male; 7 female	5 male; 10 female
Gravida	2.4 ± 0.2	2.8 ± 0.5
Parity	2.0 ± 0.2	2.5 ± 0.4

Values represent mean ± SEM. OGTT: oral glucose tolerance test. vs. lean (Mann-Whitney U test).