Diabetes

Babies Born to Diabetic Mothers Four Times More Likely to Die

Published in Women's Health Weekly, October 12th, 2000

The babies of diabetic mothers in northeast England are four times as likely to die as those born to healthy mothers, finds a study in the September 21, 2000, issue of the British Medical Journal.

The risk is six times higher in the U.K. than it is in Norway, the research shows.

The authors compared the rates of death and complications among babies born to diabetic and non-diabetic mothers in northeastern England and Norway between 1994 and 1997.

The babies of diabetic mothers were over four times as likely to die as those born to non-diabetic mothers in the U.K. and six times as likely to die as those born to...

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