Gestational diabetes mellitus: Growing consensus on management but not diagnosis

New Zealand Medical Journal

Volumn 112, Issue 1082, 1999, Pages

  Simmons, D ^a  

^a MIDDLEMORE HOSPITAL   (New Zealand)

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