Post-partum glucose tolerance assessment in women diagnosed with gestational diabetes: Evidence supporting the need to undertake an oral glucose tolerance test

Diabetic Medicine

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 243-244

  Flack, J R ^a   Payne, T J ^a   Ross, G P ^a  

^a BANKSTOWN LIDCOMBE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; DIABETIC PATIENT; FEMALE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; GLUCOSE TOLERANCE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; ORAL GLUCOSE TOLERANCE TEST; PREGNANCY DIABETES MELLITUS; PUERPERIUM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ADOLESCENT; ANALYSIS; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; GLUCOSE TOLERANCE TEST; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PROCEDURES; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BLOOD GLUCOSE; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; DIABETES, GESTATIONAL; FEMALE; GLUCOSE TOLERANCE TEST; HUMANS; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; POSTPARTUM PERIOD; PREGNANCY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 76249125861     PISSN: 07423071     EISSN: 14645491     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1464-5491.2009.02892.x     Document Type: Article

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