* Publisher: Informa HealthCare
* Number Of Pages: 513
* Publication Date: 2008-03-04
* ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0415426200
* ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780415426206
Product 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 major book gives a comprehensive review of the epidemiology, science and clinical management of gestation diabetes.