'Lansley must listen to nurses on the front line' Diabetes raises risk of stillbirths
They looked at 130 pregnancies in women with type 1 diabetes between 1999 and 2006 and found that 3.9% resulted in stillbirth, compared with the national norm of 0.55%.
They added that congenital malformations were more than double the norm in babies born to mothers with type 1 diabetes – 5.4% compared to 2%.
A second Leicester study found women with type 2 diabetes were five times more likely to have a baby with congenital malformations, and more than twice as likely to miscarry, than women with type 1 diabetes. The study involved 218 pregnant women with diabetes.
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