Use of Anticoagulants During Pregnancy Prevent Gestational Diabetes?

Abstract

Background: Nowadays, the use of anticoagulants during pregnancy has increased It is used nearly in all of the advanced maternal age and multifetal pregnancies. It is important to study the effects of this increasingly popular treatment modality on other diseases.The purpose of this study is to research the effect of the usage of anticoagulants on the prevalence of gestational diabetes. Material and Methods:Our study is retrospective. The participants consist of a group of pregnant women. Pregnant women using anticoagulants formed the case, and randomly selected pregnant women not using anticoagulants formed the control group. The study consisted of 800 participants, 400 case and 400 control. The descriptive statistics are age, number of pregnancies and body mass index. A Chi-Square test was performed to study the effect of the usage of anticoagulants on gestational diabetes. Results:Other than the body mass index of the groups, other descriptive statistics are similar There was no relationship between the participants with and without gestational diabetes in the case group in terms of gestational age, number of pregnancies and body mass index (p > 0.05). In the control group, statistically significant relationship was found (p < 0.01). A statistically significant relationship was found between the case and control groups in terms of gestational diabetes frequency (p < 0.01). Conclusions:Our study is one of the first studies to research the effect of anticoagulants had on the development of gestational diabetes. The findings of our study show that the usage of anticoagulants decrease the gestational diabetes development rate.