YIKES Insulin Use In Patients With Gestational Diabetes May Be Associated With Increased Risk For Adverse Perinatal Outcomes, Study Suggests.

reported, “In a national cohort of women in France who gave birth after 22 weeks, those with gestational diabetes had a ‘moderately increased risk of adverse perinatal outcomes’ compared with women without diabetes,” researchers found. What’s more, “the risk was generally higher in those who had been treated with insulin,” the study revealed. The findings were published online in Diabetologia. http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00125-017-4206-6