Post-natal assessment of gestational diabetes: Fasting glucose or full glucose tolerance test?

Diabetic Medicine

Volumn 31, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 1133-1137

  Myers, J E ^a   Hasan, X ^a   Maresh, M J A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE; GLYCOSYLATED HEMOGLOBIN; HEMOGLOBIN A1C PROTEIN, HUMAN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASIAN; DATA BASE; ENDOCRINE PANCREAS FUNCTION TEST; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNICITY; FASTING GLUCOSE; FEMALE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; IMPAIRED GLUCOSE TOLERANCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MIDDLE AGED; ORAL GLUCOSE TOLERANCE TEST; PERINATAL PERIOD; PREGNANCY DIABETES MELLITUS; YOUNG ADULT; BLOOD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIABETES, GESTATIONAL; DIET RESTRICTION; GLUCOSE TOLERANCE TEST; METABOLISM; NEWBORN; POSTNATAL CARE; PREGNANCY; PREVALENCE; PROCEDURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADULT; DIABETES, GESTATIONAL; FASTING; FEMALE; GLUCOSE TOLERANCE TEST; GREAT BRITAIN; HEMOGLOBIN A, GLYCOSYLATED; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; POSTNATAL CARE; PREGNANCY; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84906218988     PISSN: 07423071     EISSN: 14645491     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/dme.12503     Document Type: Article

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