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DOI: 10.1055/s-0029-1239487
Pregestational Diabetes: A Risk Factor for Vaginal Birth after Cesarean Section Failure?
Publication History
Publication Date:
26 September 2009 (online)
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ABSTRACT
Vaginal birth after cesarean delivery (VBAC) failure is associated with perinatal morbidity. The ability to predict VBAC failure in subgroups of high-risk women is important. Our objectives were: (1) to estimate if women with pregestational diabetes (PDM) who attempt VBAC are at increased risk of failure, and (2) to identify clinical characteristics of PDM women associated with failure. We performed a retrospective cohort study of women eligible for VBAC, delivered between 1995 and 1999 at 17 hospitals to study maternal history/outcomes and neonatal outcomes ascertained through chart abstraction. Women with gestational diabetes were excluded. Student t test was used to compare continuous characteristics. Chi-square/Fisher exact tests were used to compare categorical variables. Multivariable logistic regression analysis was used to control for confounders. Of all eligible women (23,601), 37% of diabetics (n = 127) and 56% of nondiabetics (n = 12968) attempted VBAC. The VBAC failure rate for PDM was 38% versus 24% for nondiabetic women (p < 0.001). The risk of failure for PDM patients was increased after controlling for confounders (adjusted odds ratio 1.61, 95% confidence interval 1.06 to 2.51; p = 0.038). PDM is independently associated with VBAC failure. The success rate for women with PDM who attempted VBAC (62%) is at the lower end of the general published VBAC success rate range.
KEYWORDS
Diabetes - pregnancy - VBAC - cesarean section
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Vanita B DharanM.D.
Clinical Fellow, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, 3400 Spruce Street
2000 Courtyard, Division of Maternal Fetal Medicine, Philadelphia, PA 19104
Email: dharanv@obgyn.upenn.edu