. In addition, a
greater proportion of the high-risk women reported having at least one chronic disease
than those in the pregnant general population. The women at high risk for GDM
completed the EPDS between the gestational weeks 5 and 18 (M 12.3, SD 2.0), and the
pregnant women in the general population between gestational weeks 8 and 19
(M 12.0, SD 1.4). One woman at high risk for GDM had too many missing responses in
the EPDS, and thus had to be excluded from further analyses