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In this disease, high levels of a sugar called glucose are present in the blood. Women with diabetes, especially those in whom the disease is poorly controlled, have an increased risk of pregnancy loss. Women with a condition called polycystic ovary syndrome also have an increased risk of miscarriage. How common is it that a cause for repeated miscarriage cannot be identified? In 50â75% of women with repeated miscarriages, health care providers can find no cause for the pregnancy loss. There may be clues about what the problem is, but no sure answer is found.
During pregnancy, the key factors associated with an increased risk of miscarriage were alcohol consumption, lifting weights of over 20 kilograms every day and regular night-shift working. According to the research, reducing all these risk factors to very low level could prevent around a quarter of miscarriages.