Maternal and neonatal glycaemic control after antenatal corticosteroid administration in women with diabetes in pregnancy: A retrospective cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To describe maternal and neonatal glycaemic control following antenatal corticosteroid administration to women with diabetes in pregnancy.

Design

Retrospective cohort study.

Setting

A tertiary hospital in Auckland, New Zealand.

Population

Women with diabetes in pregnancy who received antenatal corticosteroids from 2006-2016.

Methods

Corticosteroid administration, maternal and neonatal glycaemia data were retrieved from electronic patient records. Demographic data were downloaded from the hospital database. Relationships between variables were analysed using multivariate analysis.

Main outcome measures

Maternal hyperglycaemia and neonatal hypoglycaemia.

Results

Corticosteroids were administered to 647 of 7317 of women with diabetes

SUBMITTER: Tuohy JF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7891747 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature