RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN MATERNAL BLOOD GLUCOSE LEVEL AND NEWBORN’S BIRTH WEIGHT IN MATERNITY CLINIC OF MEDAN SELAYANG DISTRICT 2014

Abstract

According to IDF in 2012, there were over 300 million people worldwide are suffering from diabetes
and approximately 60 million from that population are women who eventually are at reproductive age
(15-49 years of age). In Indonesia, incidence of gestational diabetes mellitus is around 1.9-3.6% and
the prevalence is around 1.9-3.65%. In addition to that, prenatal deaths from mothers who previously
had gestational diabetes mellitus accounts for 3.5%. Thus, this study aims to investigate the
relationship between maternal blood glucose level and newborn’s birth weight. This study is a
quantitative study using cross sectional design. The population taken in this study was all pregnant
women who attended Maternity Clinic of Medan Selayang District. From that population we assessed
the total number of 51 people as our sample in which all were third trimester pregnant women who
attended Maternity Clinic of Medan Selayang District from July to October 2014. Based on our study,
we found that there is relationship between maternal blood glucose level and newborn’s birth weight
(r = 0.569) and relationship between maternal weight gain and newborn’s birth weight ( r = 0.365).
Meanwhile there isn’t any relationship appeared in gravidity status. The result obtained from using
backward method showed r square 0.392, P value <0.05 and the most influential variable is maternal
weight gain. Therefore, we suggest all health care providers to provide appropriate antenatal care in
order to screen, control as well as manage the condition of gestational diabetes melitus.