Perinatal characteristics and pregnancy outcomes of advanced maternal age women with gestational diabetes mellitus: A retrospective cohort study.

BACKGROUND AND AIMS

The prevalence of gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) continues to increase, and the phenomenon of women giving birth at an older age is becoming more common worldwide. Less is known abouts the impact of GDM combined with advanced maternal age (AMA) on pregnancy outcomes. To explore the impact of AMA complicated with GDM on pregnancy outcomes.

METHODS

This study included 34,602 pregnancies between 2018 and 2020 in Hangzhou, China. The pregnant women were divided into four groups according to advanced age (≥35 years) and GDM as follows: AMA women without GDM (non-AGDM) group ( = 2614), young pregnant women with GDM (YGDM) group ( = 4016), AMA women with GDM (AGDM) group ( = 850), and young pregnant women without GDM (non-YGDM) group ( = 27,122). Univariate analysis was carried out by Mann-Whitney test or Pearson's test. Multivariate logistic regression analysis was used to investigate the effect of AMA and GDM on pregnancy outcomes.

RESULTS

Multivariate logistic regression analysis showed that in the comparison against non-YGDM garoup, the ORs of fetal chromosome abnormality, parity, urgent cesarean section, gravidity, scheduled cesarean section, body mass index (BMI) ≥30 kg/m, pre-eclampsia, thrombocytopenia, hyperlipidemia, BMI 25-29.9 kg/m, blood urea nitrogen, fasting blood glucose, and creatinine in AGDM group were 16.044, 4.284, 3.530, 3.284, 3.257, 2.049, 1.935, 1.898, 1.690, 1.471, 1.304, 1.216, and 1.026 (all  < 0.05).

CONCLUSIONS

The prevalence of pregnant women with AGDM was 2.46% in Hang Zhou, China. The increasing gravidity of AMA women was related to a greater risk of GDM. The AGDM group associated with a greater risks of chromosomal abnormality in offspring and cesarean section, especially urgent cesarean section.