Stillbirth risk doubled among rural women with diabetes
These women are disadvantaged in pregnancy by their poorer health and their reduced access to specialist care, researchers say
Pregnant women with pre-existing diabetes who deliver in rural hospitals have double the rate of stillbirth than those birthing in metropolitan hospitals, Australian research has found.
A study covering all singleton births to women with type 1 or type 2 diabetes (excluding GDM) in Victoria over a 10-year period shows the rate of stillbirth was 2.3% in rural hospitals compared with 1.1% for urban areas.
