Pre-eclampsia in patients with gestational diabetes

Aim: to determine the frequency of pre-eclampsia in patients with gestational diabetes,presenting to department of obstetrics and gynaecology of nishtar hospital,multan. methods: this descriptive study was carried out in the department of obstetrics and gynaecology unit 2,nishtar hospital,multan from june 2013 to december 2013. a total of 167 patients with gestational diabetes mellitus (gdm) were included in the study. results: total number of patients with gdm was 167. patient's age range was from 17 years to 38 years with mean age (±s.d) 26.8±5.8 years. mean height and weight were 158.89±4.73 cm and 70.3±8.2 kg respectively. bmi was 27.88±3.26kg/m2. mostly patients (49.1%) were having bmi in range of obesity (25.129.9 kg/m2). gestational age at diagnosis of gdm was ranging from 21 weeks to 35 weeks of gestation with mean 25.52±3.6 weeks. mostly women were multigravida (62.3%),and remaining wereprimigravida (37.7%). regarding family history,31.1% females were having family history of hypertension,24.6% were having diabetes mellitus,and 11.4% were having history of both hypertension and diabetes. there were 29.9% women without any significant family. preeclampsia was noted in 15.6% of total patients with gdm and 84.4% patients remained free of this complication. conclusion: preeclampsia was noted in 15.6% patients of gestational diabetes and female with bmi more than 25 kg/m2 were having more tendency to develop this complication.