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2003 JAN 2 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Women with poorly controlled diabetes during early pregnancy run an increased risk of their baby being malformed, finds a new study.
Researchers in Norwich identified 158 first pregnancies in women with type 1 diabetes. They defined adverse pregnancy outcome as spontaneous abortion, major congenital malformation (potentially life-threatening or associated with serious long-term disability), stillbirth, or infant death. Their results were published in the British Medical Journal.
The women were divided into two groups according to their level of blood glucose control - a group with fair control and a group with poor control.
Adverse outcome was over fourfold higher in the poor control group than the fair control group. Compared with the fair control group, the poor control group had a fourfold increase in spontaneous abortion, and a ninefold increase in major congenital malformation. ...