Is Pregnancy Outcome Worse in Type 2 Than in Type 1 Diabetic Women?
- Natalia Hillman, MD,
- Lucrecia Herranz, MD, PHD,
- Pilar M. Vaquero, MD,
- Africa Villarroel, MD,
- Alberto Fernandez, BM and
- Luis F. Pallardo, MD, PHD
- From the Division of Diabetes, Department of Endocrinology and Nutrition, University Hospital La Paz, Madrid, Spain
- Address correspondence to Natalia Hillman Gadea, Division of Diabetes, Department of Endocrinology and Nutrition, University Hospital La Paz, 28046 Madrid, Spain. E-mail: nhillman.hulp{at}salud.madrid.org
Most research on pregestational diabetes has focused on type 1 diabetes, and surprisingly little knowledge exists concerning outcomes of pregnancies of women with type 2 diabetes. A dearth of published data suggest outcomes similar to those of type 1 diabetic women (1,2), although recent studies report poorer outcomes in women with type 2 diabetes (3–7).
We retrospectively compared maternal and perinatal outcomes of 93 consecutive singleton pregnancies in women with type 2 diabetes and 532 consecutive singleton pregnancies in women with type 1 diabetes referred to the Diabetes and Pregnancy Unit at University Hospital La Paz from 1984 to 2004.
Women with type 2 diabetes were significantly older ([means ± SD] 31.8 ± 5.5 …
