Diabetes rate doublng
Diabetes among pregnant women and teenagers more than doubled in six years, a concern among physicians who say the disease increases the chance of miscarriages and birth defects, according to a study released today. Susan Abram in the Daily News.
Of the more than 175,000 patients who gave birth in about a dozen Kaiser Permanente hospitals from 1999 to 2005, twice as many births were to women with TypeI and TypeII diabetes, according to a Kaiser Permanente study published in the May issue of Diabetes Care. The American Diabetes Association funded the study.
The conditions are unlike gestational diabetes, which develops during pregnancy but can disappear after a baby is born.