Food habits in pregnancy and its association with gestational diabetes mellitus: results from a prospective cohort study in public hospitals of urban India

Table 3 Poisson regression model of effect of dietary habits on GDM status of pregnant women adjusted for confounders (N = 1777)

Variable	Categories	Unadjusted RR (95% CI)	P- value	Adjusted RR (95% CI)	P-value
Red Meat consumption	Never	1		1
	< 1 per month	1.0(0.4,2.3)	0.98	1.2(0.6,2.4)	0.85
	1 or 3 times /month	0.8(0.49,1.2)	0.26	0.9(0.6,1.3)	0.41
	1–3 times/week	1.3(0.95,1.6)	0.11	1.3(0.98,1.6)	0.10
	> 3 times /week	2.6(1.8,3.8)	< 0.001*	2.1(1.5,2.9)	< 0.001*

Adjusted for age, family history of diabetes mellitus, socioeconomic class, BMI (body mass index), sum of skin fold thickness, MET (metabolic equivalent of task) and gestational age
1: reference category, CI Confidence Interval
* Statistically significant at 5% level of significance

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