Gestational diabetes mellitus - Time to treat

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 352, Issue 24, 2005, Pages 2544-2546

  Greene, Michael F ^a   Solomon, Caren G ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIRTH INJURY; BRACHIAL PLEXUS INJURY; CESAREAN SECTION; CLAVICLE FRACTURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DIABETIC OBESITY; DYSTOCIA; EDITORIAL; FETUS GROWTH; FETUS WEIGHT; HUMAN; HUMERUS FRACTURE; MACROSOMIA; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; ORAL GLUCOSE TOLERANCE TEST; PERINATAL MORTALITY; PREGNANCY DIABETES MELLITUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHOULDER; TIME; BLOOD; FEMALE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; NOTE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; STATISTICS;

ANTIDIABETIC AGENT; INSULIN;

BLOOD GLUCOSE; CESAREAN SECTION; DIABETES, GESTATIONAL; FEMALE; FETAL MACROSOMIA; HUMANS; HYPOGLYCEMIC AGENTS; INSULIN; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME;

EID: 20444448958     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMe058100     Document Type: Editorial

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