DIABETES AND PREGNANCY

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THE PROBLEM of pregnancy in the patient with diabetes has intermittently drawn comment from clinicians throughout the period of insulin therapy, but it is only in comparatively recent years that research has brought to light facts which may eventually lead to an understanding of the essential differences between the diabetic and the normal woman in pregnancy. Most physicians have carried too few diabetic women through pregnancies to be familiar with all aspects of the problem, and there are many points on which the literature is still in controversy. Some of these details are subject to clinical analysis of large series of cases, and the literature is not overcrowded with such studies. This discussion reviews the literature and summarizes current opinion on the problem. Our own conclusions are based on information derived from a study of diabetic women at the Charity Hospital of Louisiana, at New Orleans, and throughout the

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