Diabetic pregnant women can cause less risk of respiratory syndrome in infants

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Well-managed maternal diabetes mellitus (DM) may not significantly worsen outcomes of very-low-birth-weight, preterm infants according to the results of a study reported online September 19 in *Pediatrics.*

“With modern management and adequate glycemic control in pregnancies complicated by diabetes mellitus, the risk of respiratory distress syndrome in near-term and term newborns may not be increased beyond that of a nondiabetic control population,” write Yoram Bental, MD, from the Department of Neonatology, Laniado Hospital in Israel and the Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa, and colleagues from the Israel Neonatal Network. “We hypothesized that maternal …DM increases the risk for mortality, respiratory distress syndrome (RDS), and major complications of prematurity.”

Ref and Read more: https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/750056?sssdmh=dm1.720000&src=nldne

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