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<p>Babies of women with diabetes are nearly five times more likely to be stillborn; are almost three times more likely to die in the first three months; and twice as many are born with major congenital malformations. The incidence is high--somewhere between 3 and 7 per cent of all pregnant women in the USA have diabetes--and rising; the condition is often complicated by other risk-factors such as obesity and heart disease. This major book gives a comprehensive review of the epidemiology, science and clinical management of gestation diabetes.</p> <p></p> <p>Fully updated and revised, it contains new chapters on: </p> <ul> <ul> <p></p></ul> <li>Fetal growth in normal and diabetic pregnancies</li> <li>Genetics</li> <li>Congenital anomalies</li> <li>Exercise</li> <li>Pharmacological management</li> <li>Insulin pump therapy</li> <li>Hypoglycemia</li> <li>The role of ultrasound for timing of delivery</li> <li>Thyroid and pregnancy</li> <li>Fetal origins of adult disease</li> <li>Metabolic syndrome and diabetes following gestational diabetes mellitus</li> <li>Psychological and social aspects </li> <ul> <p></p></ul></ul> <p></p> <p>The book provides a comprehensive, authoritative, international view of these difficult pregnancies and will be invaluable to maternal-fetal medicine specialists, diabetologists, neonatologists, and basic scientists working in the field.</p>