Journal article
MACROSOMIA IN INFANTS OF INSULIN-DEPENDENT DIABETIC MOTHERS
MA BERK, F MIMOUNI, M MIODOVNIK, V HERTZBERG, J VALUCK
PEDIATRICS | AMER ACAD PEDIATRICS | Published : 1989
Abstract
The purpose of the present study was to evaluate factors affecting the rate of macrosomia and related complications in a population of infants of insulin-dependent diabetic mothers. The following factors were hypothesized to be predisposing to macrosomia: increased maternal weight gain during gestation, increased number of births until infant No. 3, white race, increased maternal age, poor glycemic control from the 20th week of gestation, and increased insulin dose. Advance White classification and increased duration of diabetes were predicted to be inversely related. In addition, macrosomia was hypothesized to predispose to selected adverse perinatal outcomes including premature labor, birt..
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