title: [Neonatal morbidity associated to gestational diabetes. A descriptive study on 74 patients].
abstract: BACKGROUND
  women with gestational diabetes have an increase risk for maternal and neonatal metabolic complications.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  to evaluate detection, treatment and close surveillance.
  
  
  METHODS
  we recruited all women with gestational diabetes whose pregnancies ended in this hospital between September to November of 2005. All newborns were examined by a neonatologist and initiated early feeding with infant formula or glucose solution.
  
  
  RESULTS
  a total of 74 patients with gestational diabetes were included. The age was 31.03 +/- 4.79 years, and the body mass index before pregnancy was 32.31 +/- 6.41. Eighteen patients developed third-trimester complications, in fourteen of them it was hypertensive disease of pregnancy. All were single pregnancies that ended in 71 term and 3 preterm newborns. There were not fetal or perinatal deaths. There were four small newborns for gestational age, 18 large for gestational age and 52 normal weight newborns. Eleven neonates had metabolic complications, eight of them had idiopathic respiratory distress syndrome, four had hypoglycaemia and one large for gestational age had obstetric trauma. Also two neonates with cardiovascular malformations were diagnosed. Thirty-six mothers returned for revaluation, eight had type 2 diabetes, six glucose intolerance.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  this group of patients shows the maternal and neonatal morbidity associated to gestational diabetes in patients under close surveillance. Systematic early screening in women at risk and close surveillance are required to obtain healthy newborns.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Endocrinología, Hospital "Dr. Ignacio Morones," Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social, Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico. gbforsbach@yahoo.com
authors.forename: Gerardo
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Forsbach-Sánchez
authors.forename: Julia
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Vásquez-Lara
authors.forename: Ricardo
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Hernández-Herrera
authors.forename: Héctor E
authors.initials: HE
authors.lastname: Tamez-Pérez
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D015992:Body Mass Index; D016640:Diabetes, Gestational / Q000453:epidemiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007232:Infant, Newborn, Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology*; D011247:Pregnancy; D011248:Pregnancy Complications; D012307:Risk Factors; D055815:Young Adult