Lack of Relation of Increased Malformation Rates in Infants of Diabetic Mothers to Glycemic Control during Organogenesis

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 318, Issue 11, 1988, Pages 671-676

  Mills, James L ^a   Knopp, Robert H ^a   Simpson, Joe L ^a   Jovanovic Peterson, Lois ^a   Metzger, Boyd E ^a   Holmes, Lewis B ^a   Aarons, Jerome H ^a   Brown, Zane ^a   Reed, George F ^a   Bieber, Frederick R ^a   Van Allen, Margot ^a   Holzman, Ian ^a   Ober, Carole ^a   Peterson, Charles M ^a   Withiam, Marcia J ^a   Duckles, Anne ^a   Mueller Heubach, Eberhard ^a   Polk, B Frank ^a  

^a EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; ORGANOGENESIS; PREGNANCY;

EID: 0023841062     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM198803173181104     Document Type: Article

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