Usual delay in sample processing can modify gestational diabetes screening [14]

Diabetes Care

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 429-

  Corcoy, Rosa ^a   Gascón, Neus ^a   De Leiva, Alberto ^a   Ordóñez Llanos, Jordi ^a  

^a HOSPITAL DE LA SANTA CREU I SANT PAU   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUORIDE SODIUM; GLUCOSE;

ADULT; ANTICOAGULATION; BLOOD SAMPLING; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; FEMALE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; GLYCOLYSIS; HEMATOCRIT; HUMAN; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PREGNANCY DIABETES MELLITUS; PRESERVATION; SCREENING TEST; TEMPERATURE; TIME;

EID: 0343851084     PISSN: 01495992     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2337/diacare.23.3.429b     Document Type: Letter

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