ANTENATAL, INTRAPARTUM AND POSTNATAL OUTCOME IN GESTATIONAL DIABETIC AND PRE- GESTATIONAL DIABETIC WOMEN
Dr. Bashaer Hussain Aloufi* and Dr. Afaf AL Saiali
Abstract
Objective: maternal and fetal morbidity and mortality rate in pregnant
women complicated by gestational and pre-gestational diabetes.
Methods: Retrospective study of 200 randomly selected pregnant
women affected by gestational and pregestational during the time
period between 1st January 2017 and 31th of December 2017 at king
Abdul Aziz specialist hospital in Taif. Results: total number of
pregnant women during the study period was 8900 the number of
diabetic patients was 1500 (16.8%), there were 1010 gestational
diabetics (67.3 %) and 490 pre- gestational diabetics (32.6%) of the
pre-gestational diabetics (patients 430 were type 1 87.7 %). maternal
and fetal complications were more common in women with pregestational
diabetes compared to women with gestational diabetes. Conclusions: the
complications of pre-gestational diabetes higher than those of gestational diabetes in our
hospital. Better screening programs and follow up are for both pre- gestational and
gestational diabetes are required.
Keywords: Diabetes Mellitus is a very common medical disorder.
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