Gestational diabetes mellitus - risk factors

  1. Body mass index above 30 kg/m2

  2. previous macrosomic baby weighing 4.5 kg or above

  3. previous gestational diabetes

  4. family history of diabetes (first-degree relative with type II  
      diabetes)

  5. family origin with a high prevalence of diabetes:

       • South Asian (specifically women whose country of family  
            origin is India, Pakistan or Bangladesh)

       • black Caribbean

       • Middle Eastern (specifically women whose country of family  origin is Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Iraq, Jordan, Syria, Oman, Qatar, Kuwait, Lebanon or Egypt).