assessment of carotid intima-media thickness and infra-renal abdominal aorta diameter in women with and without gestational diabetes mellitus-a case control study

Objective: gestational diabetes mellitus occurs during pregnancy is associated with increased cardiovascular risk. carotid intima media thickness (cimt) is a surrogate maker of subclinical atherosclerosis. the aim of this study is assessment of relationship between cimt and infra-renal abdominal aorta diameter in women with and without gestational diabetes mellitus.materials and methods: the current case-control study was conducted in department of radiology of shahid sadoghi hospital in yazd medical science university 2012 to 2013. forty women between 20-40 years old with at least 6 months after pregnancy were enrolled, 20 participants with gdm in last pregnancy and 20 participants without history of gdm. all participants underwent physical exam and laboratory findings. finally carotid intima-media thickness and infra abdominal aorta diameter were obtained.results: over all comparison between gdm and non gdm groups revealed no significant difference in mean cimt and infra-renal abdominal aorta diameter. fbs between two groups reveal significant statistically difference (p-value < 0.05). also pearson correlation analysis shows association between infera-renal abdominal aorta diameter and cholesterol and ldl in non gdm participate.conclusion: our study suggested gdm may not relate to cimt and infera-renal abdominal aorta diameter. also current study revealed women with history of gdm are prone to having impaired fasting glucose.