poorly controlled diabetes during pregnancy increases the maternal risk for diabetic ketoacidosis, preeclampsia, spontaneous abortions, preterm delivery, and delivery complications and increases the fetal risk for major birth defects, stillbirth, and macrosomia related morbidity
In addition to its effects on glucose metabolism, glucagon is suggested to induce body weight loss, by increasing satiety and enhancing hepatic lipid oxidation and whole-body energy expenditure (13)
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