High Risk Of Stillbirth For Women With Diabetes, UK

Women with diabetes are seven times more likely to have a stillborn baby compared to other women.These findings will be presented next week at Diabetes UK’s Annual Professional Conference in Glasgow. Research looking at 130 pregnancies in Leicester of women with Type 1 diabetes between 1999 and 2006 showed that 3.9 per cent resulted in stillbirth. This compares to 0.55 per cent according to a report on the pregnancy outcomes of all women.

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Filed under: Diabetes on March 3rd, 2008