High-risk diabetic pregnancy and work: two hard-to-reconcile circumstances

• Published in: Revista Panamericana de Salud Pública
• Main Author: Janine Schirmer
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English; Spanish; Portuguese
• Published: Pan American Health Organization 1997
• Subjects: Medicine; R; Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Public aspects of medicine; RA1-1270; Arctic; Pablo
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1590/s1020-49891997001200006; https://doaj.org/article/1f86a30260cc461da983eac6a8ec96d5

In 1991 the prevalence of diabetes was 7.6% in women in nine Brazilian state capitals. This disease now ranks among the leading causes of death in the country and is becoming an increasingly alarming public health problem. In spite of advances in the treatment of diabetes and improved obstetric care...