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JAMA. 1970;212(8):1287-1302.

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Pregnancy and diabetes: how risky

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Investigators from several different countries now believe that the prognosis for infants born to diabetic mothers is better than many physicians think.

In presentations at the Sixth World Congress of Gynaecology & Obstetrics in New York City, they said recent studies have shown no significant increase in congenital abnormalities in infants born to diabetic mothers and no increase in the perinatal mortality in women with gestational diabetes. In addition, new evidence to suggest that sulfonylureas can be used safely in such women was presented at the meeting.

Christine Watson, MB, BS, D. Obst., RCOG, DCH, reported "... for diabetic mothers without severe vascular complications, the risk of bearing a congenitally abnormal baby is not demonstrably greater than for nondiabetic mothers." Dr. Watson, a research assistant in the Department of Child Health at King's College Hospital in London, studied the incidence of congenital abnormalities in a consecutive . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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