How metformin acts in PCOS pregnant women: Insights into insulin secretion and peripheral action at each trimester of gestation

Diabetes Care

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1477-1482

  Romualdi, Daniela ^a   De Cicco, Simona ^a   Gagliano, Donatella ^a   Busacca, Matteo ^a   Campagna, Giuseppe ^a   Lanzone, Antonio ^a,b   Guido, Maurizio ^a  

^a CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b OASI RESEARCH INSTITUTE IRCCS   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METFORMIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; GLUCOSE METABOLISM; HUMAN; INSULIN METABOLISM; INSULIN RELEASE; INSULIN SENSITIVITY; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MACROSOMIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEWBORN; ORAL GLUCOSE TOLERANCE TEST; OVARY POLYCYSTIC DISEASE; PILOT STUDY; PREGNANCY DIABETES MELLITUS; PREGNANT WOMAN; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; THIRD TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; TREATMENT FAILURE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPOGLYCEMIC AGENTS; INSULIN; METFORMIN; POLYCYSTIC OVARY SYNDROME; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TRIMESTERS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84878225400     PISSN: 01495992     EISSN: 19355548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2337/dc12-2071     Document Type: Article

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