Risk of pregnancy in pregnant women with diabetes?

Pregnant women with diabetes face the risk of babies being born in a defective condition or suffering from disorders. Control of blood sugar levels is key to maintaining healthy pregnancy and safe.

Diabetes in pregnancy distinguished two categories, namely women who had diabetes before the pregnancy and diabetes caused by pregnancy (gestational diabetes). When pregnant, blood sugar is likely to increase, but generally will return to normal after delivery.

A study by researcher from the United States and Israel concluded that women with gestational diabetes higher risk of pancreatic cancer. It is believed related to the release of certain hormones and increasing body weight during pregnancy. Insulin as a regulator of blood sugar levels are also produced in the pancreas.

In the study, the research team analyzed the health records of 40,000 women who gave birth in the period 1964-1976 in Jerusalem, Israel. The result, from 410 women diagnosed with gestational diabetes, five of them suffering from pancreatic cancer.

Head of School of Medicine, researchers from the University of New York, Mary Perrin, suggests, these findings still need to be developed again in the future. However, one thing is certain, gestational diabetes rates continue to rise as rising obesity epidemic obesity alias.

"The important thing to realize is that gestational diabetes could be the harbinger of risk and other health problems such as pancreatic cancer," he said.

Meanwhile, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) United States, this week launch the latest study reported that pregnant women who have diabetes before the pregnancy (pre-gestational diabetes) risk of 3-4 times higher to have babies born with the disorder or disability .

The study published in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology is the study of health data than 13,000 cases of birth defects in 10 American states in the period 1997-2003. By comparison the 5000 birth of healthy data randomly selected.

The result, as many as 93 percent of birth defects was not associated with diabetes. However, about 2 percent of babies born with a disability were derived from women who have diabetes before the pregnancy. The case with 5 percent of babies born with more than one disability. While healthy at birth, the percentage of pregnant with diabetes is much lower.

In the study, researchers analyzed more than 40 types of defects in newborns, such as heart deformities, spine, kidneys, to digestive problems.

"Diabetes is never indiscriminate, including in relation to birth defects," said the head of the research team, Dr. Adolfo Correa.

Currently, cases of birth defect affects about 1 in 33 births in the United States, with a mortality rate of about 20 percent. Unfortunately, the cause is clearly not yet known. However, risk factors such as obesity, alcohol consumption, smoking, and infection was pointed out to be the trigger.

One complication that occurs in babies born is a 4kg weight above, as happened in the case of infants born in Sumatra, some time ago memiiki weighs 8.7 kg, was also born of a mother who was predicted as a diabetic.