Babies born after diabetes in pregnancy: What are the short- and long-term risks and how can we minimise them?

Best Practice and Research: Clinical Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 91-104

  Hawdon, J M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON HOSPITALS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

congenital anomalies; diabetes in pregnancy; hypoglycaemia; hypoxia ischaemia; iatrogenic; long term outcomes; macrosomia; metabolic adaptation; neonate; perinatal mortality; preterm birth

Indexed keywords

GLUCAGON; GLUCOSE; INSULIN;

ARTICLE; BLOOD GLUCOSE MONITORING; BREAST FEEDING; CESAREAN SECTION; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; EMBRYOPATHY; FETUS HYPOXIA; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; GLYCEMIC CONTROL; HUMAN; HYPERGLYCEMIA; HYPERTROPHIC CARDIOMYOPATHY; HYPOCALCEMIA; HYPOGLYCEMIA; HYPOMAGNESEMIA; IATROGENIC DISEASE; INFANT FEEDING; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; ISCHEMIA; MACROSOMIA; METABOLIC REGULATION; NEWBORN CARE; NEWBORN DISEASE; NEWBORN MONITORING; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL MORTALITY; PREGNANCY DIABETES MELLITUS; PREMATURE LABOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK REDUCTION; TERATOGENICITY;

EID: 79651473464     PISSN: 15216934     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpobgyn.2010.10.005     Document Type: Review

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