Table
2: Comparison
of urine calcium creatinine ratio, calcium supplementation and dietary calcium
intake between the group with gestational diabetes mellitus and group without
gestational diabetes mellitus.
|
Normal
group (n = 961) |
GDM
group (n
= 72) |
Total
1033 |
P
value |
Daily calcium intake
(mg) |
1000.29 (536.44) |
1054.30 (623.37) |
1004.06 (542.78) |
NS* |
Urine calcium creatinine
ratio (µg/dl) |
0.29 (0.78) |
0.06 (0.25) |
0.28 (0.76) |
0.001 > |
Consumption of calcium
supplement (%) |
133 (13.83%) |
22 (30.5%) |
155 (15 %) |
0.001 |
Insufficient nutritional
intake of calcium**, n (%) |
582 (60.56%) |
4 (5.55%) |
623 (60.3%) |
NS |
Comparison between normal and GDM
group by using Mann-Whitney U test and Chi-square test
* NS: Not significant P > 0.05
** Less than RDA recommendation