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.
Notes on verification
Exact figures verified against original PLOS ONE study (Charlton et al. 2016) and reproduced consistently across PubMed, PMC, and institutional repository sources, plus an independent Italian public health source.
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)