INTRODUCTION World Health Organization estimates that deaths resulting from diabetes will rise above 50% by the year 2020; hence urgent action is needed to reverse the trend notably through nutrition and lifestyle intervention among populations at risks. Studies have established that nutritional environment and physiology of the mother affects neonate's health at infancy and later in life thus ...

Newborns from diabetic mothers are more frequently born prematurely, large for the gestational age, with difficult respiratory adaptation and risk of RDS (respiratory distress syndrome) and, subsequently, exposed to a higher risk of perinatal distress, hypoxia, metabolic stress and hematologic alterations. Comparing the status at birth of 120 newborns from mothers with diabetes, with 120 contro...

INTRODUCTION Increased neonatal birth weight (NBW), often associated with diabetic pregnancies, is a recognized indicator of childhood obesity and future metabolic risk. Predictors of NBW in healthy non-diabetic pregnancies are not yet established. Here, we investigated the association of maternal parameters of healthy non-diabetic mothers with NBW of their "appropriate-for-gestational age" neo...

We have performed this study with the purpose of determining relationships between various types maternal diabetes, glycemic control and prevalence cardiovascular complications in neonates comparing these findings to infants non-diabetic mothers. A retrospective case-control was years 2019-2022 on two groups newborns at … hospital, IRAQ. Sixty-one mothers were included study. The case group con...