Ascorbic acid and uric acid levels in gestational diabetes mellitus

The study was carried out on 50 primigravidas of 18-36 years age at 32-39 weeks gestation attending our antenatal clinic. They included a study group of 25 pregnant women diagnosed as having GDM by oral glucose tolerance test with 100g of glucose 3 and a control group of 25 women having healthy normotensive pregnancy. None of them had a family history of diabetes mellitus, hypertension, and obesity, and none were taking any vitamin supplements or drugs. Study samples were drawn after overnight fasting and vitamin C was estimated spectrophotometrically 4. Serum uric acid was estimated colorimetrically .