Hypertensive disorders during pregnancy in gestational diabetic women

Experimental and Clinical Endocrinology and Diabetes

Volumn 116, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 329-332

  Savona Ventura, C ^a   Grima, S ^a  

^a Department of Health ^*  (Malta)

Author keywords

Complications; Gestational diabetes; Hypertension; Outcomes; Pregnancy; Risk factors

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CESAREAN SECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LABOR INDUCTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PERINATAL MORBIDITY; PERINATAL PERIOD; PREGNANCY DIABETES MELLITUS; PREMATURE LABOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ADULT; BLOOD GLUCOSE; DIABETES, GESTATIONAL; FEMALE; GLUCOSE TOLERANCE TEST; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MATERNAL AGE; PARITY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS;

EID: 46749119795     PISSN: 09477349     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2007-1004524     Document Type: Article

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