Patterns of glycemia in normal pregnancy: Should the current therapeutic targets be challenged?

Diabetes Care

Volumn 34, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1660-1668

  Hernandez, Teri L ^a,b   Friedman, Jacob E ^c   Van Pelt, Rachael E ^b   Barbour, Linda A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c Children's Hospital Colorado   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIRTH WEIGHT; BLOOD GLUCOSE MONITORING; CONTINUOUS GLUCOSE MONITORING SYSTEM; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FETUS DISEASE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; GLUCOSE INTOLERANCE; HUMAN; HYPERINSULINEMIA; LARGE FOR GESTATIONAL AGE; MACROSOMIA; METHODOLOGY; OBESITY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY DIABETES MELLITUS; PREVALENCE; REFERENCE VALUE; REVIEW; SELF MONITORED BLOOD GLUCOSE; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; BLOOD; BODY MASS; FEMALE; METABOLISM; NEWBORN; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PRENATAL EXPOSURE;

BIRTH WEIGHT; BLOOD GLUCOSE; BODY MASS INDEX; DIABETES, GESTATIONAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS;

EID: 80054687461     PISSN: 01495992     EISSN: 19355548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2337/dc11-0241     Document Type: Review

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