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The clinical impression that offspring of women with diabetes have an increased occurrence of congenital malformations has a long history. As far back as 1933 Skipper considered that there was an “unusual tendency for the children of diabetics to show congenital abnormalities,” though the evidence—various unrelated abnormalities reported in several publications—was too scanty “to allow definite conclusions to be drawn.” Attention given to the subject during the ensuing 60 or more years largely dwelt on surveys of series of hospital-based births of diabetic women; but isolated instances of diabetic women having children with many types of malformations continued to be reported as well.
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Kalter, H. (2012). Malformations and Diabetes. In: A History of Diabetes in Pregnancy. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-1557-8_12
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