Prevalance and Risk Factors of Gestational Diabetes Mellitus: A Retrospective Study

Abstract

A retrospective study to assess the prevalence and risk factors of gestational diabetes mellitus amongantenatal mothers in a selected Tertiary Care Hospital at Kelambakkam, Kanchipuram District, Tamil Nadu,India The objectives were to Assess the prevalence of Gestational Diabetes Mellitus within last two years(2016 to 2018) in a selected Tertiary Care Hospital at Kelambakkam, at Kanchipuram district, Tamil Naduand to associate the risk factors of GDM with the selected demographic variables. The convenient samplingwas used to select 35 medical records of antenatal mothers with gestational diabetes mellitus .The dataregarding risk factors like History of GDM in previous pregnancy, Fasting blood glucose, Random bloodglucose, Diagnosed at which trimester, Previous history of LSCS, previous history of abortion, duration inhospital,complications other than gestational diabetes mellitus were collected from the medical records. Theresult showed that 120 antenatal mothers were diagnosed with gestational diabetes mellitus within last 2years. There is a significant association of demographic variables like parity with the risk factors of historyof gestational diabetes mellitus in previous pregnancy (?2 = 7.882, P ? 0.05)