Insulin requirements in type 1 diabetic pregnancy: Do twin pregnant women require twice as much insulin as singleton pregnant women?

Diabetes Care

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1246-1248

  Callesen, Nicoline F ^a   Ringholm, Lene ^a   Stage, Edna ^a   Damm, Peter ^a,b   Mathiesen, Elisabeth R ^a,b  

^a Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN A1C; HUMAN INSULIN; INSULIN; INSULIN DERIVATIVE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; DRUG SCREENING; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEMOGLOBIN DETERMINATION; HUMAN; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; INSULIN TREATMENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREGNANCY DIABETES MELLITUS; THERAPY EFFECT; TREATMENT DURATION; TWIN PREGNANCY;

ADULT; BLOOD GLUCOSE; BLOOD GLUCOSE SELF-MONITORING; BLOOD PRESSURE; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 1; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; FEMALE; HEMOGLOBIN A, GLYCOSYLATED; HUMANS; HYPOGLYCEMIC AGENTS; INSULIN; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY IN DIABETICS; PREGNANCY, TWIN; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84861778976     PISSN: 01495992     EISSN: 19355548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2337/dc11-2467     Document Type: Article

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