PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Emma G Wilmot
AU  - Peter Mansell
TI  - Diabetes and pregnancy
AID  - 10.7861/clinmedicine.14-6-677
DP  - 2014 Dec 01
TA  - Clinical Medicine
PG  - 677--680
VI  - 14
IP  - 6
4099  - http://www.rcpjournals.org/content/14/6/677.short
4100  - http://www.rcpjournals.org/content/14/6/677.full
SO  - Clin Med2014 Dec 01; 14
AB  - An increasing number of women who are pregnant have diabetes, whether gestational or pre-existing. Diabetes in pregnancy is associated with a number of adverse outcomes including birth trauma, neonatal hypoglycaemia, macrosomia and pre-eclampsia. Those with pre-existing diabetes have the additional risks which include congenital defects and increased perinatal mortality. This paper summarises the complications of diabetes in pregnancy and highlights some of the recent controversy surrounding the diagnosis of gestational diabetes.