Congenital Birth Defects

Babies of diabetic mothers have fivefold increase in structural heart defects

Published in Diabetes Week, October 6th, 2003

Babies born to mothers with diabetes are five times as likely to have structural heart defects as other babies, suggests a new study.

Structural abnormalities of the heart are the most common kind of congenital birth defect, affecting around 6-8 babies out of every 1,000 born. In most cases the cause is unknown.

Dr. Jill P. Pell of the Greater Glasgow National Health Services Board and her colleagues based their findings on information from all live births to mothers between 1995 and 2000 in one former health region in the north of England.

During this period, 192,618 babies were born, of whom 609 were born to diabetic mothers....

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