An early pregnancy HbA1c ≥5.9% (41 mmol/mol) is optimal for detecting diabetes and identifies women at increased risk of adverse pregnancy outcomes

Diabetes Care

Volumn 37, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 2953-2959

  Hughes, Ruth C E ^a   Moore, M Peter ^b   Gullam, Joanna E ^a   Mohamed, Khadeeja ^b   Rowan, Janet ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b CHRISTCHURCH HOSPITAL   (New Zealand)

^c AUCKLAND CITY HOSPITAL   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN A1C; GLYCOSYLATED HEMOGLOBIN; HEMOGLOBIN A1C PROTEIN, HUMAN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS DEATH; FETUS OUTCOME; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEONATAL THROMBOCYTOPENIA; NEWBORN; NEWBORN MORTALITY; ORAL GLUCOSE TOLERANCE TEST; PATIENT IDENTIFICATION; PERINATAL DEATH; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PREECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY DIABETES MELLITUS; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREMATURE LABOR; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; REFERENCE VALUE; RISK FACTOR; SCREENING TEST; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SHOULDER DYSTOCIA; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; DIABETES, GESTATIONAL; GLUCOSE TOLERANCE TEST; NEW ZEALAND; PRE-ECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY; RISK; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; COHORT STUDIES; DIABETES, GESTATIONAL; FEMALE; GLUCOSE TOLERANCE TEST; HEMOGLOBIN A, GLYCOSYLATED; HUMANS; NEW ZEALAND; PRE-ECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84910138975     PISSN: 01495992     EISSN: 19355548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2337/dc14-1312     Document Type: Article

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