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. 2017 Sep 11;60(12):2377–2383. doi: 10.1007/s00125-017-4428-7

Table 1.

Termination of pregnancy and sterilisation in women with and without type 1 diabetes

Variable Termination of pregnancy Sterilisation
T1D Non-T1D T1D Non-T1D
Number of:
  Women at risk 1123 2905 2281 4509
  Procedures 344 722 597 873
  Births 1673 5535
Person-years 1243 4317 41,308 92,328
Ratea,b 277a 167a 14.5b 9.5b
SIRc (95% CI) 1.67 (1.51, 1.86) Ref. 1.69 (1.56, 1.83) Ref.

The control group are women without type 1 diabetes

aTerminations of pregnancy per 1000 pregnancy-years

bSterilisation procedures per 1000 person-years

cEstimated by comparing age-period specific rates in women with type 1 diabetes with the comparable rates in the control group (reference group)

Ref., reference; T1D, type 1 diabetes