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A History of Diabetes in Pregnancy The impact of maternal diabetes on offspring prenatal development and survival

Type 1 diabetes is a serious and common disease, afflicting one per 200 of the population worldwide. It is widely believed to cause harmful physical maldevelopment--congenital malformations--and other consequences in the unborn children of women with the disease. This book considers the history of t...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kalter, Harold
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 2012, 2012
Edition:1st ed. 2012
Subjects:
Medicine / Research
Gynecology
Biology / Research
Gynecology 
Epidemiology
Biomedical Research
Pediatrics
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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Summary:Type 1 diabetes is a serious and common disease, afflicting one per 200 of the population worldwide. It is widely believed to cause harmful physical maldevelopment--congenital malformations--and other consequences in the unborn children of women with the disease. This book considers the history of the disease in pregnant women and this belief that it causes anomalies since the time of the discovery of insulin in 1921, and presents a profound and critical appraisal of the subject of its supposed prenatal harmfulness
Physical Description:XII, 272 p online resource
ISBN:9789400715578

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