[Pregnancy and diabetes mellitus]. / Beremennost' i sakharnyi diabet.

The dynamics of the placental lactogenic hormone level, insulin requirements, and glycaemia during pregnancy was studied in diabetes I and II patients and diabetic pregnancies. Fructose amine and C-peptide levels in maternal and neonatal blood were measured in different diabetes types. The risk of diabetes I development in relation to the incidence of the HLA-system antigens was assessed. The need for a functional insulin therapy prior to and during pregnancy was substantiated.