title: Clinical analysis of infants of diabetic mothers.
abstract: The clinical spectra of 82 infants of diabetic mothers (IDMs) encountered in the past 15 years are presented. The perinatal mortality rate was 6.1%, The observed morbidities of the 78 live-born IDMs were: large for gestational age, 35.9%; prematurity, 12.8%; small for gestational age, 12.8%; respiratory distress, 17.9%; low Apgar score, 6.4%; nerve injury, 2.6%; hypoglycemia, 10.3%; hyperbilirubinemia, 28.2%; polycythemia, 12.8%; hypocalcemia, 5.1%; hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, 3.8%. Furthermore, 15.9% (13/82) of these infants suffered from congenital malformation, a rate nearly 10 times higher than that of the general neonatal population born in this hospital. In comparing sugar control during organogenesis, the mothers who had malformed infants had significantly higher fasting plasma glucose level than the mothers who had normal infants (P less than 0.05). Since tight control of maternal diabetes is mandatory to reduce the prevalence of mortality and malformation of the IDMs, we suggest that there is an urgent need to improve health education and supervision before and during pregnancy in all diabetic women.
authors.forename: C K
authors.initials: CK
authors.lastname: Lin
authors.forename: P L
authors.initials: PL
authors.lastname: Kuo
authors.forename: H C
authors.initials: HC
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: K I
authors.initials: KI
authors.lastname: Yau
authors.forename: H S
authors.initials: HS
authors.lastname: Chang
authors.forename: T R
authors.initials: TR
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: S H
authors.initials: SH
authors.lastname: Chen
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001786:Blood Glucose / Q000378:metabolism; D000013:Congenital Abnormalities / Q000209:etiology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007226:Infant Mortality; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D011247:Pregnancy; D011256:Pregnancy Outcome; D011254:Pregnancy in Diabetics / Q000097:blood / Q000150:complications
chemical_list: D001786:Blood Glucose