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Obesity-linked Diabetes Raises Still Birth Risk
Date: Tuesday, October 11, 2005
Source: The Guardian
In a story covered mainly in The Guardian and The Independent, it is reported that research by the Confidential Enquiry into Maternal and Child Health (CEMACH) has revealed that pregnant women with type 2 diabetes are five times more likely to give birth to still-born babies.
Babies born to diabetic mothers are also three times more likely to die within the first four weeks of life. In the past it was thought that only type 1 diabetes, which means a lifetime on insulin, was a problem in pregnancy, but the biggest study to date has found that the risks are just as high in type 2, which is often triggered by obesity.
Of the 2,356 babies born between March 2002 and February 2003 to women with type 1 and type 2 diabetes, there were 63 still-births and a further 22 babies who died before they were four weeks old. The findings are seen as a disappointment after the 1989 St Vincent declaration, which set a five year target to achieve similar pregnancy outcomes for women with diabetes and those without the condition.
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