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Weiss, PA; Hofmann, HM; Kainer, F; Haas, JG.
Fetal outcome in gestational diabetes with elevated amniotic fluid insulin levels. Dietary versus insulin treatment.
Diabetes Res Clin Pract. 1988; 5(1):1-7
Doi: 10.1016/S0168-8227(88)80071-8
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- Of 228 women with gestational diabetes between 28 and 32 gestational weeks, 195 had a normal amniotic fluid insulin level (4.8 +/- 3.6 microU/ml) while 33 (14.5%) had an elevated level (23.1 +/- 10 microU/ml). Women with a normal amniotic fluid insulin level were treated by diet alone. Fourteen of the women with an elevated level were treated by diet alone; 19 received insulin treatment additionally. The fetal outcome of patients with a normal amniotic fluid insulin level and dietary therapy and of those with an elevated level and insulin treatment was similar to that of metabolically healthy women. The newborns of gestational diabetics with elevated amniotic fluid insulin treated by diet alone showed a significantly higher incidence of neonatal hyperinsulinism, hypoglycemia, hyperbilirubinemia, high birth weight, respiratory distress syndrome and hypocalcemia. While 2/14 (14%) of the neonates in the dietary group had fatal respiratory distress syndrome, there were no deaths in the group with elevated amniotic fluid insulin and insulin treatment. The data demonstrate that in gestational diabetics with normal amniotic fluid insulin (low-risk group), dietary therapy is sufficient while insulin therapy is required to ensure healthy offspring in patients with elevated amniotic insulin (high-risk group).
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