【Objectives】 To explore the maternal periphery and cord ghrelin level in abnormal glucometabolism mothers with good glucose control. Analyzing the clinical data and experimental markers

to find out what is correlated with neonatal body index

and to explore the relationship between ghrelin and fetal growth. 【Methods】 Totally 56 women who delivered in the First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University from November 2009 to February 2010 were enrolled. Totally 32 cases of abnormal glucometabolism with good glucose control and 24 cases of normal glucose tolerance. The clinical data was analyzed retrospectively. The neonatal anthropometry

including birth weight

neonatal body length

head circumference

chest circumference

upper arm circumference

thigh circumference

and abdominal circumference

were recorded. LANGE skinfold caliper was used to measure the neonatal subscapular skinfold thickness

thigh skinfold thickness

suprailiac skinfold thickness

triceps skinfold thickness and hypodermic fat thickness of abdomen within 24 hours after birth. ELISA was used to detect serum ghrelin level in maternal periphery and cord blood

then SPSS software was used to compare these markers. 【Results】 Maternal periphery ghrelin level of AGM group was lower than that of NGT group. Maternal periphery ghrelin level had negative trend with pregestational weight

pregestational BMI

antepartum weight

and antepartum BMI. 【Conclusions】 Maternal periphery ghrelin level of AGM group was lower than that of NGT group; Cord blood ghrelin level had negative trend with the birth weight

length

head circumference

skinfold thickness and complicated nutrition index both in AGM and NGT group.