Diabetes in pregnancy. An epidemiologic study by Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology of Sassari University from 1974 to 1983.
We examined 102 pregnancies in 59 diabetic women by Department of Gynaecology and Obstetrics of Sassari University from 1974 to 1983, we evaluated pregnancy and labor proceeding, perinative morbidity and mortality. Our issues show a perinative mortality high yet (14.8%), not always comparable to severity of maternal diabetes, that's mainly due to insufficient number of controls undertaken from patients for their por medical education. Recently diabetic pregnant women have getting used to routine controls of metabolic balance, pregnancy evolution and fetal well-being through biochemical and biophysic monitoring; that allows to obtain an improvement of perinative mortality.
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001724:Birth Weight; D005260:Female; D005313:Fetal Death / Q000453:epidemiology*; D006801:Humans; D007226:Infant Mortality; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007558:Italy; D008875:Middle Aged; D011247:Pregnancy; D011254:Pregnancy in Diabetics