In Tuscany, insulin prescriptions during pregnancy reached a peak increase of 722% during the third trimester between 2004 and 2010.
Notes on verification
Confirmed by peer-reviewed primary source (Charlton et al., PLOS ONE 2016) and corroborated by secondary summary (epicentro.iss.it), both reporting the same 722% figure for Tuscany's third-trimester insulin prescribing increase.
Sources
- Farmacoepidemiologia documentazione in Europa (epicentro.iss.it)
- https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0155737 (journals.plos.org)
- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4871589/ (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)