Mean platelet volume in gestational diabetes mellitus
Nilgün Güdücü, Güliz Sidar, Uzay Görmüş, Herman İşçi, Alin Başgül Yiğiter, İlkkan Dünder
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, İstanbul Bilim University Avrupa Hospital, İstanbul, Turkey
Keywords: Gestational diabetes mellitus; hemoglobin level; mean platelet volume.
Abstract
Objectives: This study aims to compare mean platelet volume of pregnants with gestational diabetes mellitus to a healthy control group and to detect the relationship between mean platelet volume and fasting blood glucose.
Materials and methods: Patients with gestational diabetes mellitus (n=43) were compared to a healthy control group (n=43) retrospectively by searching medical records.
Results: Platelet count and mean platelet volume of patients with gestational diabetes mellitus and the control group were not statistically significantly different. There was no statistically significant correlation between mean platelet volume and fasting blood glucose of patients with gestational diabetes mellitus (r=-0.207, p=0.189). Complete blood count results of the two groups were compared, only hemoglobin levels were statistically significantly different.
Conclusion: There was no difference in mean platelet volume of patients with gestational diabetes mellitus and controls. There was also no relationship between mean platelet volume and fasting blood glucose of patients with gestational diabetes mellitus.