women pregnancy with undetected diabetes should be alert

Both types of diabetes, namely type 1 (likely to appear in childhood) and type 2 (mostly due to diet), causing problems controlling the amount of sugar in the blood.

"The good news, with the help of experts before and during pregnancy, many women with diabetes can have a healthy baby," the doctor said Bell.


Risk of birth defects increased four-fold when the mother is suffering from diabetes. Babies born can suffer from congenital heart disease and spina bifida (spina bifida).

A study from Newcastle University proves that from the analysis of 40 thousand pregnancies in the United Kingdom from 1996 to 2008, the number of people with diabetic mothers as 1677 people.

The risk of birth defects appears 19 times in every thousand births in women with undetected diabetes. In women with diabetes the number rose to 72 times in every thousand births.

The study says sugar levels in women should begin supervised when ovulating. "Many anomalies started in the first four to six weeks," said lead investigator, Ruth Bell, told the BBC yesterday, Monday, February 6, 2012.

Guidelines from the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence in the UK, said the women should reduce blood sugar levels to below 6.1 percent before trying to have a baby.

Local authorities have recommended that women have control over blood sugar levels before trying to conceive. In addition to birth defects, diabetes also cause miscarriage or babies born too fat, too much sugar.