Textbook of Diabetes and Pregnancy, Second Edition
Contributors: Moshe Hod (Editor); Lois G. Jovanovic (Editor); Gian Carlo Di Renzo (Editor); Alberto De Leiva (Editor); Oded Langer (Editor)
Edition: 2 edition
Publisher: Informa Healthcare; Distributed in North and South America by Taylor & Francis
Published: April 10, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 536
ISBN-13: 9780415426206
Subjects: Diabetes; Materno-fetal medicine; Medical; Medical / Nursing; Gynecology & Obstetrics; Medical / Gynecology & Obstetrics; Endocrinology & Metabolism
Description: Babies of women with diabetes are nearly five times more likely to be stillborn; are almost three times more likely to die in the first three months; and twice as many are born with major congenital malformations. The incidence is high--somewhere between 3 and 7 per cent of all pregnant women in the USA have diabetes--and rising; the condition is often complicated by other risk-factors such as obesity and heart disease. This book gives a comprehensive review of the epidemiology, science and clinical management of gestation diabetes. The book provides a comprehensive, authoritative, international view of these difficult pregnancies and will be invaluable to maternal-fetal medicine specialists, diabetologists, neonatologists, and basic scientists working in the field.