Increases a figure of pregnant women suffering from diabetes
Los Angeles (AP) - The number of pregnant women suffering from diabetes has grown more than double in seven years, according to a study in California, a worrying trend that represents dangers to the health of mothers and their babies.
Black, Asian and Hispanic pregnant women are more likely to suffer from diabetes before pregnancy than white women, he added.
Eats who do not control their diabetes face growing abortions.Their babies also run higher risks to be born with birth defects.
"These are high -risk pregnancies," Dr. Florence Brown, an expert in pregnancy and diabetes, gave."All women with pre -existing diabetes need to plan their pregnancies," he added.
Brown, co-director of the Joslin-Beth Israel Deaconess medical center for diabetes and pregnancy, based in Boston, had no role in the study, conducted by researchers from Kaiser permanent, a health care company based in California.
The researchers examined the clinical records of 175,000 women of different ethnicities who gave birth in a dozen Kaiser hospitals, in southern California, between 1999 and 2005.
The figure of pregnant women with pre -existing diabetes was small.In 1999, there were 245 of those women.In 2005, the total was 537. That indicates that the rate rose from 8 per thousand pregnancies to 18 per thousand.
The highest percentage of diabetes was in teenagers between 13 and 19 years old.The rate went from 1 per 1,000 pregnancies to 5.5 per 1,000 in a period of seven years.
The most common form of diabetes is linked to obesity.
About 15 million people in the United States suffer from diabetes, and 1.5 million new cases are diagnosed in 20 -year -old people and more, according to the United States Diabetes Association.
Diabetes prior to pregnancy is different from diabetes that develops during pregnancy, and that disappears later.Diabetes developed during pregnancy affects between 3% and 8% of pregnant women in the United States.
