RESUMO
A total of 156 mothers with alterations in the metabolism of glucose and a control group of 42 other women with their respective children were studied at the National Institute of Perinatology. The group of 156 women was divided in four. The first group included mothers with type I diabetes mellitus; group 2 included mothers with type II diabetes mellitus; group 3 included mothers with gestational diabetes and group 4 contained those mothers with gestational alterations to the tolerance of glucose. The anthropometric indicators of the mother, weight and height at the end of the pregnancy, were compared to their respective children according to sex, while considering the group to which they belonged. The greatest weight medium for those mothers for both the male and female population, was found in group 3. With respect to height, the tallest mothers were found in group 2. When using the correlation coefficient, no significant crossovers were found between the weight and height the mother and the weight, length and cephalic perimeter of the newborn. Our results show that women with greater weight at the end of their pregnancy, had heavier babies, but this does not apply to height. We conclude that the presence of macrosomias or alterations in fetal growth can be reduced when an efficient control and early detection of the alteration of glucose metabolism is found in the mother.