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Diabetic women should monitor glucose levels before pregnancy

New Delhi: Women suffering from diabetes and wishing to start a family should monitor their blood glucose levels and take a daily high dose of folic acid before pregnancy to avoid risk to their baby's

PTI PTI Updated on: November 28, 2013 14:01 IST
diabetic women should monitor glucose levels before
diabetic women should monitor glucose levels before pregnancy

New Delhi: Women suffering from diabetes and wishing to start a family should monitor their blood glucose levels and take a daily high dose of folic acid before pregnancy to avoid risk to their baby's health, a new study said Wednesday.




The risk of stillbirth - when the foetus dies in the uterus or death during the first year of birth - was over four times greater in women with diabetes than in those without the disease.

The team from Newcastle studied the outcome of over 400,000 pregnancies delivered in north of England between 1996 and 2008.

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