A new research presented this year in the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD) of Lisbon, shows that the results of pregnancy with diabetes remain poor, despite significant advances in obstetrics and diabetes care.
Maternal type1 diabetes can lead to a series of adverse health conditions, including bad pregnancy results with diabetes, particularly if blood sugar is poorly controlled around the moment of conception.
This study by Dr. Lowri Allen of the Diabetes Research Group of Cardiff University aimed to compare the results of pregnancy in young women up to 35 years with type 1 diabetes.
The team also aimed to describe the relationship between maternal age, the duration of type 1 diabetes before pregnancy and the results of pregnancy with diabetes.This research is part of a broader work program aimed at identifying people with type1 diabetes that develop early complications of their condition, which are likely to benefit from new interventions.
These include immunotherapy aimed at preserving beta cells of insulin producers in the pancreas, which could offer people with type 1 diabetes the possibility of improving blood sugar control in the first years after diagnosis.
The researchers used data from the Brecon cohort;An almost complete (98%) record of people diagnosed with type 1 diabetes before 15 years in Wales and the United Kingdom, since 1995.
The researchers found that although most mothers with type 1 diabetes had cesarean births (66% compared to only 18% in the general population), most mothers with type 1 had an average gestation to childbirth four more weekscut (35.7 vs 39.7 weeks in childbirth).
The authors found that all the adverse results were more common in mothers with type1 of beginning in childhood.Mothers with diabetes had about 3 times more likely to develop preeclampsia, 10 times more likely to lose the baby in childbirth and 11 times more of having premature birth.
Babies born of pregnancy with diabetes were also 2.5 times more likely to have low birth weight, and about three times more of having congenital malformations and three times of being admitted to the hospital in the first year of life.
The authors conclude that: "The results of pregnancy with diabetes remain poor in, despite the significant advances in obstetric and diabetic care."Next, they point out that: "Measures to preserve the function of beta cells can improve the results, and more studies are needed to explore this."Such as good permanent blood glucose control.