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Table 2 Spearman’s correlations between key maternal anthropometric and metabolic variables and neonatal outcomes

From: Maternal overweight is not an independent risk factor for increased birth weight, leptin and insulin in newborns of gestational diabetic women: observations from the prospective ‘EaCH’ cohort study

Maternal characteristics

Neonatal outcomes

Placental weight

Birth weight

Relative birth weight

Cord-blood insulin

Cord-blood leptin

 

r

P-value

r

P-value

r

P-value

r

P-value

r

P-value

Prepregnancy BMI

0.24

0.001

0.14

ns

0.18

0.009

0.19

0.015

0.20

0.009

Net GWG

0.06

ns

0.09

ns

0.09

ns

0.04

ns

− 0.06

ns

FG at oGTT

0.18

0.010

0.12

ns

0.13

ns

0.10

ns

0.15

ns

AUC glucose at oGTT

−0.02

ns

− 0.09

ns

− 0.07

ns

0.02

ns

0.15

ns

Mean FG at 32nd GW

0.24

< 0.001

0.16

0.029

0.19

0.007

0.23

0.003

0.23

0.004

Mean FG at 36th GW

0.12

ns

0.10

ns

0.15

0.041

0.21

0.010

0.21

0.011

HbA1c in 3rd trimester

0.21

0.004

0.17

0.017

0.22

0.002

0.31

< 0.001

0.32

< 0.001

HbA1c partum

0.24

< 0.001

0.25

< 0.001

0.29

< 0.001

0.39

< 0.001

0.38

< 0.001

  1. Abbreviations: BMI Body-mass-index, ns Non-significant, GWG Gestational weight gain, FG Fasting glucose, oGTT Oral glucose tolerance test, AUC Area under the curve, GW Gestational week, HbA1c Glycated hemoglobin A1c
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