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Congenital anomalies and first life year surveillance in Type 1 diabetic births
Author(s) -
Vääräsmäki M.,
Gissler M.,
Ritvanen A.,
Hartikainen A.L.
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
diabetic medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.474
H-Index - 145
eISSN - 1464-5491
pISSN - 0742-3071
DOI - 10.1046/j.1464-5491.2002.00756.x
Subject(s) - medicine , pediatrics
Aims To evaluate the rate of congenital anomalies (CA) and the reasons for mortality from 22 weeks of gestation until 1 year of age in births by Type 1 diabetic mothers. Methods Population‐based cohort study using combined data from four national health registers in Finland during 1991–1995, including 954 singleton pregnancies complicated by Type 1 diabetes. Results Sixty births (629/10 000) involved registered major CA, of which 68% ( n = 41) were isolated and 22% ( n = 13) multiple anomalies, and in six cases, a syndrome was diagnosed (10%). After the exclusion of syndromes, the total number of anomalies was 73. Of the malformed infants, 63% were boys. The total rate of deaths among births until 1 year of age was higher in diabetic than in non‐diabetic mothers (19.9/1000 vs. 8.1/1000): especially the rates of stillborns (odds ratio 2.4; 95% confidence interval 1.2–4.7) and post‐neonatal deaths (3.8; 1.6–9.2) were higher. Of perinatal mortality (PNM) from the 22nd gestational week to the age of 7 days (13.6/1000), 23% were due to CA, 23% to prematurity, and the rest were intrauterine, mostly unexplained, deaths. Respiratory distress syndrome was the main cause of death among infants. Conclusions The rate of CAs in Type 1 diabetic pregnancies is still high, but their proportion as a cause of PNM has decreased. Though PNM rate was low, post‐neonatal mortality was significantly increased, reflecting the shift of deaths from the perinatal period to a later age.