• Jovana Todorovic, Stefan Dugalic, Demet Sengul, Dejana Stanisavljevic, Dzenana A Detanac, Ilker Sengul, Eduardo Carvalho de Arruda Veiga, Zorica Terzic-Supic, Biljana Đurić, and Miroslava Gojnic.
• Univerzitet u Beogradu, Institute of Social Medicine, Faculty of Medicine - Belgrade, Serbia.
• Rev Assoc Med Bras (1992). 2023 Jan 1; 69 (3): 447451447-451.

ObjectiveThere is an increase in the prevalence of pre-gestational diabetes in the past decades, mainly due to the increase in the prevalence of obesity in the general population and consequently type 2 diabetes among women of reproductive age.MethodsThis study purposed to describe the delivery characteristics, pregnancy complications, and outcomes among women in Serbia with the pre-gestational type 2 diabetes in the past decade, as well as their pregnancy complications, deliveries, and neonatal outcomes. The study included data from all the pregnant women with pre-gestational type 2 diabetes in Belgrade, Serbia during the period between 2010 and 2020. The final sample consisted of 138 patients.ResultsMore than half, i.e., 70 (50.7%) had a vaginal delivery, while 48 (34.8%) had elective and 20 (14.5%) had emergency caesarean sections. Throughout the period, there was 1 patient with preeclampsia (0.7%), 5 with pregnancy-induced hypertension (3.6%), 7 had newborns with small for gestational age (5.1%), 28 with macrosomia (20.3%), 12 (8.7%) had preterm births, and one-fifth, i.e., 28 (20.3%) of the newborns had Apgar score under 8.ConclusionThe present study revealed that women with type 2 diabetes in pregnancy have a significant burden of pregnancy complications, related to pregnancy, delivery, and newborns.

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