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