Can prepregnancy care of diabetic women reduce the risk of abnormal babies?

British Medical Journal

Volumn 301, Issue 6760, 1990, Pages 1070-1074

  Steel, Judith M ^a,b   Johnstone, Frank D ^d   Hepburn, David A ^a,b   Smith, Alistair F ^a,c  

^a ROYAL INFIRMARY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b Diabetic Department ^*

^c Department of Clinical Chemistry ^*

^d UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLYCOSYLATED HEMOGLOBIN;

ARTICLE; BLOOD; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; COUNSELING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOGLYCEMIA; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; NEWBORN; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY DIABETES MELLITUS; PRENATAL CARE; RISK; RISK FACTOR; UNITED KINGDOM;

ABNORMALITIES; AMBULATORY CARE FACILITIES; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; COUNSELING; DIABETES MELLITUS, INSULIN-DEPENDENT; FEMALE; HEMOGLOBIN A, GLYCOSYLATED; HUMAN; HYPOGLYCEMIA; INFANT, NEWBORN; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY IN DIABETICS; PRENATAL CARE; RISK; RISK FACTORS; SCOTLAND; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T;

EID: 0025705033     PISSN: 09598146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.301.6760.1070     Document Type: Article

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