Can common clinical parameters be used to identify patients who will need insulin treatment in gestational diabetes mellitus?

Diabetes Care

Volumn 34, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 2214-2216

  Pertot, Tania ^a   Molyneaux, Lynda ^b   Tan, Kris ^b   Ross, Glynis P ^b   Yue, Dennis K ^a,b   Wong, Jencia ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b ROYAL PRINCE ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE; HEMOGLOBIN A1C; INSULIN; GLYCOSYLATED HEMOGLOBIN;

ARTICLE; BLOOD GLUCOSE MONITORING; BODY MASS; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; GESTATION PERIOD; GESTATIONAL AGE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; INSULIN TREATMENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; ORAL GLUCOSE TOLERANCE TEST; PATIENT IDENTIFICATION; PREGNANCY DIABETES MELLITUS; PRENATAL CARE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ADULT; BLOOD; GLUCOSE TOLERANCE TEST; LIFESTYLE; METABOLISM; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PREGNANCY;

ADULT; BLOOD GLUCOSE; BODY MASS INDEX; DIABETES, GESTATIONAL; FEMALE; GLUCOSE TOLERANCE TEST; HEMOGLOBIN A, GLYCOSYLATED; HUMANS; INSULIN; LIFE STYLE; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PREGNANCY;

EID: 84860790206     PISSN: 01495992     EISSN: 19355548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2337/dc11-0499     Document Type: Article

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