Male predominance of congenital malformations in infants of women with type 1 diabetes

Diabetes Care

Volumn 32, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1194-1195

  Evers, Inge M ^a,b   De Valk, Harold W ^b   Visser, Gerard H A ^b  

^a ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GESTATION PERIOD; HUMAN; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIPLE PREGNANCY; NEWBORN; NEWBORN CARE; PREGNANCY DIABETES MELLITUS; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREMATURITY; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; TWIN PREGNANCY;

COHORT STUDIES; CONGENITAL ABNORMALITIES; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 1; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; NETHERLANDS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; RISK FACTORS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; TRIPLETS; TWINS;

EID: 67650070812     PISSN: 01495992     EISSN: 19355548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2337/dc09-0367     Document Type: Article

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