Advertisement

The Confidential Enquiry into Maternal and Child Health (CEMACH) study also found that babies born to diabetic mothers are nearly twice as likely to have major congenital malformations, BBC News reported.

Of 2 356 babies born to women with diabetes over a one-year period, there were 63 stillbirths and another 22 of the babies died before they were a month old.

The study also found that pregnant women with diabetes had higher-than-normal rates of Caesarean section and pre-term delivery, BBC News reported.

Most common complication
Diabetes affects about one in every 250 pregnancies and is the most common complication of pregnancy, the researchers said.

"The evidence is that type 2 diabetes is becoming more common and, contrary to what many people have believed, is just as likely to lead to a baby's death or a malformation as if the mother had type 1 diabetes," Dr Mary Macintosh, CEMACH medical director, told BBC News. – (HealthDayNews)

Visit our Diabetes Centre for more information.

October 2005
 

Print this article on

Rate this article Poor 1 2 3 4 5 Excellent

JOBS

DELPHI DEVELOPER Gauteng - Johannesburg C++ DEVELOPERS Gauteng SENIOR C++ DEVELOPERS Gauteng - Johannesburg SENIOR .NET DEVELOPERS Gauteng SNR C# / .NET DEVELOPER Gauteng WEB DEVELOPERS Gauteng JAVA / J2EE DEVELOPERS Gauteng C# DEVELOPERS Gauteng - Pretoria Find more jobs Register your CV Post a job