Volume 1 number 1 Summer 2003
Special issue for the abstracts of the 7th Pan Arab Conference on Diabetes
PACD7 , 25 – 28 March 2003 Cairo

 Abstract Number : 8
Fasting Blood Sugar of first trimester and 24-28 weeks

Fatemeh Vasegh

Abstract:

This research is a descriptive and analytic study which was carried out to investigate the 
Fasting Blood Sugar of first trimester and 24-28 weeks, and 50-gram Glucose Challenge Test at 24-28 weeks of gestational age in non-diabetic pregnant women and their effect on the infants’ weight in Charity Hospital in Tehran. The means of the Fasting Blood Sugar for the first trimester, 24-28 weeks and Glucose Challenge Test were 81.15, 80.8 and 111.75 milligrams per deciliter respectively. The means of the infants’ weight was 3203.5 grams. There was a significant relationship between the mother's age, parity prepregnancy weight and Body Mass Index, the height, weight gain during pregnancy and the infants' sex and gestational age, and the infants' weight. Moreover, there was a direct relationship between the Fasting Blood Sugar of the first trimester and 24-28 weeks, and the infants' weight. Furdermore, the effect of mother's Fasting Blood Sugar on the infants’ weight was irrelevant to mother’s Body Mass Index. It should be mentioned that the positive correlation was higher regarding the Fasting Blood Sugar of the first trimester. By Regression Line, the equation line and infants’ weights based on mother’s Fasting Blood Sugar were obtained. Therefore, the Glucose Challenge Test cannot be used to predict the infants’ weight. Whereas, due to the mother’s Fasting Blood Sugar, the infants being possibly over or under weight, can be identified.

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