Inflammatory and Adipokine Status from Early to Midpregnancy in Arab Women and Its Associations with Gestational Diabetes Mellitus

Table 3

Correlation between inflammatory markers and other parameters at early and midpregnancy.

Parameters	Visit 1					Visit 2
	Adiponectin; (μg/ml)	Resistin; (ng/ml)	IL-6; (pg/ml)	Leptin; (ng/ml)	TNF-α; (pg/ml)	Adiponectin; (μg/ml)	IL-6; (pg/ml)	Leptin; (ng/ml)	TNF-α; (pg/ml)
Age (years)					-0.18
Systolic BP at V1	-0.13			0.15
MAC at V1	-0.14			0.16
Fat at V1		-0.16		-0.15
Insulin (μU/ml) at V1		0.17		0.16
Total cholesterol (mmol/l) at V1	-0.17
Cholesterol-HDL ratio at V1			-0.17
Triglycerides (mmol/l) at V1	-0.23
HDL-cholesterol (mmol/l) at V1	-0.14
Fasting glucose (mmol/l) at V2									0.30
Fat at visit 2							-0.34	0.21	-0.27
HDL-cholesterol (mmol/l) at V2							-0.27		-0.35
Cholesterol-HDL ratio at V2							0.17	-0.16	0.21
Total cholesterol (mmol/l) at V2								-0.21
LDL-cholesterol (mmol/l) at V2								-0.22
Homa-B at V2						0.25			-0.21

Note: data presented as correlation coefficient; and indicate significance at 0.01 and 0.05, respectively.