Table 3.

Characteristics of the 13 perinatal deaths in pregnancies of women with type 2 diabetes.

Case	Maternal origin	First trimester HbA1c (mmol/mol)	Mean HbA1c during pregnancy (mmol/mol)	Congenital malformations	Obstetric complications	Gestational age at delivery	Size at birth	Cause of death
1*	Nonnative	65	57	—	Cervical insufficiency	23	—	Prematurity
2*	Nonnative	54	56	—	—	25	AGA	Parvo infection
3*	Nonnative	—	45	—	—	24	SGA	Unexplained
4*	Nonnative	—	78	—	—	36	AGA	Unexplained
5*	Nonnative	80	60	Hypoplastic heart	—	35	LGA	Congenital malformation
6†	Native	—	46	Ventriculomegaly/ cerebral anomalies	Pre-eclampsia	37	AGA	Congenital malformation
7†	Native	—	49	Truncus Arteriosus type 2	—	38	AGA	Congenital malformation
8†	Nonnative	—	—	Cardiac malformation		37	SGA	Congenital malformation
9†	Native	51	46	—	Pre-eclampsia	30	AGA	Infection
10†	Nonnative	—	76	—	PROM	26	AGA	Prematurity
11†	Nonnative	—	—	—	Chorioamnionitis	22	SGA	Prematurity
12†	Nonnative	—	32	—	PROM	33	AGA	PROM
13†	Nonnative	69	64	—	Vacuumextraction	36	LGA	Tension pneumothorax

*Stillbirth, ^†neonatal death, PROM: premature rupture of membranes, SGA: small for gestational age (<10th percentile), AGA: appropriate for gestational age, LGA: large for gestational age (>90th percentile).