In this book, Harold Kalter challenges the belief that the babies of women with insulin-dependent diabetes are congenitally malformed more often than babies of nondiabetic women He traces the origin of this idea to a survey of births to diabetic women in a Danish hospital reported in 1964 and follows the trail of literature to the present Kalter points out the two errors most responsible for the faulty theory, a loose definition of the term malformation and the use of misrepresentative studies Specifically, Kalter argues that the use of patients who are cared for in hospital diabetes departments and specialized diabetes clinics does not represent the entire population of diabetic women accurately Building on these weaknesses, Kalter argues that congenital malformations do not occur, and probably never have occurred, more frequently in the children of diabetic women
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'This monograph attacks the widely held belief that maternal diabetes is teratogenic, i.e., that it disturbs the development of the embryo. Rarely has an iconoclastic treatment of a subject been so thoroughly researched and documented.' - F. Clarke Fraser, McGill University, Quebec
'The book will be an important contribution to the field and, in fact, may be the most important book ever written on the subject of congenital malformations and diabetes mellitus.' - Dan C. Moore, Madigan Army Medical Center, Tacoma, Washington
'The book will be an important contribution to the field and, in fact, may be the most important book ever written on the subject of congenital malformations and diabetes mellitus.' - Dan C. Moore, Madigan Army Medical Center, Tacoma, Washington
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sacral absence, diabetic births, prediabetic pregnancies, pregestational diabetic women, caudal abnormalities, malformation frequency, pregnancy complicating diabetes, inadmissible defects, caudal dysgenesis, caudal dysplasia, nondiabetic pregnancies, insulin era, diabetic pregnancy, pregnant diabetic women, pregestational diabetics, facies syndrome, malformation frequencies, nondiabetic females, maternal blood glucose level, sacral abnormalities, diabetic embryopathy, prediabetic period, fetal maldevelopment, pregestational diabetes, diabetic mortalities Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Great Britain, Boston Lying-in Hospital, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom, Pima Indians, Washington State, Bureau of the Census, New York City, World Health Organization, King's College Hospital, National Diabetes Data Group, Pierre Robin, Royal Maternity Hospital, United States New!
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The history of medicine, like the chronicle of humankind, is burdened with the unexpected. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
sacral absence, diabetic births, prediabetic pregnancies, pregestational diabetic women, caudal abnormalities, malformation frequency, pregnancy complicating diabetes, inadmissible defects, caudal dysgenesis, caudal dysplasia, nondiabetic pregnancies, insulin era, diabetic pregnancy, pregnant diabetic women, pregestational diabetics, facies syndrome, malformation frequencies, nondiabetic females, maternal blood glucose level, sacral abnormalities, diabetic embryopathy, prediabetic period, fetal maldevelopment, pregestational diabetes, diabetic mortalities Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Great Britain, Boston Lying-in Hospital, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom, Pima Indians, Washington State, Bureau of the Census, New York City, World Health Organization, King's College Hospital, National Diabetes Data Group, Pierre Robin, Royal Maternity Hospital, United States New!
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- Carbohydrate Metabolism in Pregnancy and the Newborn by Hamish W. Sutherland on 14 pages
- Issues and Reviews in Teratology (Discontinued (Issues and Reviews in Teratology)) by H. Kalter on 9 pages
- Obstetrical Epidemiology by S. L. Barron in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Gestational Diabetes: What to Expect by American Diabetes Association on page 54, page 58, and Back Matter
- Gestational Diabetes by Peter A. M. Weiss on page 63, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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