Pregnant women with diabetes may be more likely to experience a stillbirth when they have obesity or poorly managed blood sugars, a new study suggests as reported in Reuters Health.
Even without these extra health issues, women with diabetes who become pregnant face a four to five times higher risk of stillbirth than women without diabetes researchers note in Diabetologia.
“The question has to be asked whether earlier delivery of diabetic pregnancies could prevent these term stillbirths, but we don’t know the answer to this,” said Dr. Sharon Mackin, lead author of the study and a researcher at the University of Glasgow in Scotland.
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