Table 1 Attendance of follow-up care during the year after childbirth in women with GDM delivering in 2019.

From: Gestational diabetes in Germany—prevalence, trend during the past decade and utilization of follow-up care: an observational study

Factors investigated

Postpartum screening

RRa

95%-CI

Yes (n = 3,045)

No (n = 4,060)

  

Age (ref = Middle (26 to 35 years) n = 4,453)

 Younger (13 to 25 years) (%)

5.6

(n = 170)

7.8

(n = 315)

0.92

0.81–1.04

 Older (36 to 49 years) (%)

33.2

(n = 1,011)

28.5

(n = 1,156)

1.06

1.01–1.12*

Education (ref = accredited vocational training n = 3,116)

 Unknown (%)

28.9

(n = 881)

30.2

(n = 1,227)

0.97

0.91–1.03

 Without vocational training (%)

5.6

(n = 170)

7.1

(n = 288)

0.90

0.80–1.02

 Master craftsman/technician/equivalent technical college degree or Bachelor (%)

6.7

(n = 205)

6.6

(n = 268)

1.10

0.99–1.22

 Diploma/Magister/Master/State Examination or Doctorate/Habilitation (%)

14.7

(n = 446)

12.4

(n = 504)

1.12

1.04–1.20*

Prescription of insulin during pregnancy (ATC-Code A10A) (ref = no)

 Yes (%)

27.1

(n = 825)

10.5

(n = 425)

1.67

1.58–1.76*

Hypertension (ICD-Code I10-I15) (ref = no)

 Yes (%)

8.8

(n = 269)

5.4

(n = 220)

1.14

1.05–1.23*

Obesity (ICD-Code E66) (ref = no)

 Yes (%)

17.9

(n = 546)

11.2

(n = 456)

1.17

1.10–1.24*

  1. aEstimation of associations of certain factors on the probability of performing a blood glucose test (EBM 32025, 32057, 32094, 32881) in the year after childbirth: Relative risk (RR) with 95% confidence interval (CI) from the log-binomial regression model adjusted for all listed variables; * significant (α = 0.05); women with childbirth in 2019 and gestational diabetes continuously insured in the year after childbirth (N = 7,105).
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