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Since the discovery of insulin, pregnancy in the diabetic no longer constitutes a threat to the life of the mother. Perinatal mortality however has always been higher than in the non-diabetic and despite the considerable fall during the last three decades it is still twice as high in diabetics. Table 1 shows perinatal mortality at King’s College Hospital during the last 27 years. During the years 1971–1977 perinatal mortality was 9 of 201 (4.5%). This compares with the national perinatal mortality of just below 2%.
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Essex, N.L., Pyke, D.A. (1979). Management of Maternal Diabetes in Pregnancy. In: Sutherland, H.W., Stowers, J.M. (eds) Carbohydrate Metabolism in Pregnancy and the Newborn 1978. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-66972-9_22
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