The use of an artificial pancreas improves the health of pregnant women with type 1 diabetes
The experimental artificial pancreas has been created by combining continuous glucose control with an insulin pump, devices that are already used separately by patients with type 1 diabetes
Madrid (2-2-11).- Researchers at the University of Cambridge, in the United Kingdom, have shown that an artifice pancreas, also called "closed insulin distribution system", can improve health in pregnant women with type 1 diabetes, reducing fetal death and deaths between thesepatients.
The researchers tested this system in 10 pregnant women with type 1 diabetes and discovered that, through this method, they were facilitated the adequate amount of insulin, correct blood sugar levels were maintained and the dangerous falls of sugar levels were preventedIn blood during the night.
According to the director of the study, Helen Murphy, from the University of Cambridge, discovering that an artificial pancreas can help maintain almost normal blood glucose levels in these women is very promising.
Previous trials carried out in children with type 1 diabetes showed that using an artificial pancreas at night improved blood glucose control and hypoglycemia was reduced.
Pregnancy can be especially dangerous for women with diabetes, since hormonal changes make it very difficult to keep blood glucose levels safely, especially during night hours.
As a result of high blood glucose levels, pregnancies of diabetic patients have a five -time risk than the rest of the spoil;Three times more possibilities that the child dies in his first months of life and twice the chances of suffering a greater deformity, according to these researchers.
The previous studies data suggested that pregnant with type 1 diabetes passed an average of 10 hours a day with glucose outside the recommended levels.This increases the risk that the child is born with malformations, fetal deaths, neonatal deaths, premature births, excess weight of the newborn and that other types of complications appear.