A threefold increase in gestational diabetes over two years: Review of screening practices and pregnancy outcomes in Indigenous women of Cape York, Australia

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 363-368

  Davis, Bronwyn ^a   McLean, Anna ^a,b   Sinha, Ashim K ^a,b   Falhammar, Henrik ^c,d  

^a CAIRNS BASE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^d KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

aboriginal; diabetes in pregnancy; outcomes; quality improvement; type 2 diabetes

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE; HEMOGLOBIN A1C; INSULIN;

ADULT; APGAR SCORE; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BIRTH WEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; BREAST FEEDING; CESAREAN SECTION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONGENITAL DISORDER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELIVERY; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; FETUS GROWTH; FOLLOW UP; GESTATIONAL AGE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HEAD CIRCUMFERENCE; HUMAN; HYPOGLYCEMIA; INDIGENOUS PEOPLE; LARGE FOR GESTATIONAL AGE; MACROSOMIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MOTHER; NEWBORN DEATH; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; ORAL GLUCOSE TOLERANCE TEST; PARITY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY DIABETES MELLITUS; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCREENING TEST; SMALL FOR DATE INFANT; SMOKING; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; STILLBIRTH; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; DIABETES, GESTATIONAL; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ETHNOLOGY; GLUCOSE TOLERANCE TEST; MASS SCREENING; NEWBORN; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

BREAST FEEDING; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; DIABETES, GESTATIONAL; FEMALE; GLUCOSE TOLERANCE TEST; HUMANS; HYPOGLYCEMIA; INFANT, NEWBORN; MASS SCREENING; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY IN DIABETICS; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; QUEENSLAND;

EID: 84880617283     PISSN: 00048666     EISSN: 1479828X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ajo.12042     Document Type: Article

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