Hypoglycemia in pregnant women with type 1 diabetes: Clinical features and management

Diabetic Hypoglycemia

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 3-7

  Ringholm, Lene ^a,b   Pedersen Bjergaard, Ulrik ^c   Thorsteinsson, Birger ^c,d   Damm, Peter ^a,b,d   Mathiesen, Elisabeth R ^a,b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

^c HILLERØD HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Continuous glucose monitoring; Glycated hemoglobin; Hypoglycemia; Hypoglycemia awareness; Insulin analogs; Insulin pump; Pregnancy; Trimester; Type 1 diabetes management

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE; HEMOGLOBIN A1C; INSULIN; INSULIN ASPART; INSULIN DERIVATIVE; INSULIN DETEMIR; INSULIN GLARGINE; ISOPHANE INSULIN;

AWARENESS; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTINUOUS GLUCOSE MONITORING; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES CONTROL; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HYPOGLYCEMIA; INCIDENCE; INJECTION; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; INSULIN PUMP; INSULIN TREATMENT; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; NONHUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT COUNSELING; PATIENT MONITORING; PREGNANCY; PREGNANT WOMAN; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; RISK REDUCTION; THIRD TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 79551501703     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17572428     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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