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Insulin/therapeutic use , Pregnancy in Diabetics/therapy , Birth Weight , Blood Glucose/metabolism , Body Weight , Congenital Abnormalities/etiology , Diet, Diabetic , Female , Fetal Death/epidemiology , Fetoscopy , Gestational Age , Glycosuria/etiology , Humans , Hypoglycemia/etiology , Infant Mortality , Infant, Newborn , Insulin/administration & dosage , Pre-Eclampsia/complications , Pregnancy , Pregnancy in Diabetics/complicationsABSTRACT
Vertical transmission from mother to fetus and from mother to newborn infant of HBV plays a major role in maintaining the hepatitis B endemic condition. After a review of the literature on the subject the Authors outline the data of three years of investigations performed on a sample of 5345 pregnant women, puerperae and their respective infants. These data point out: - the high rate, statistically significant, of HBsAg-positive women (2.63%), among those hospitalized for threatened abortion or abortion in progress; - the high positivity rate (16.39%) of cord blood samples of infants born to carrier mothers; - the constant negativity of cord blood in these infants during the first week of age; - the follow-up of 37 children from carrier mothers (controlled at 1, 2, 3, 6 months and 1 and 2 years of age) substantiates the constant negativity for HBsAg in European children.
