A study using prescription data from seven European regions found insulin prescription rates in the year before pregnancy ranged from 0.27% in Tuscany to 0.45% in Norway.
Sources
- Farmacoepidemiologia documentazione in Europa (epicentro.iss.it)
- https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0155737 (journals.plos.org)
- https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27192491 (pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4871589/ (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
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