In women with gestational diabetes requiring drug treatment, glibenclamide may be inferior to insulin and metformin: Metformin (plus insulin when required) performs better than insulin

Evidence-Based Medicine

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 127-

  Carroll, Dana ^a   Kelley, Kristi W ^a  

^a AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

GLIBENCLAMIDE; GLYCOSYLATED HEMOGLOBIN; INSULIN; METFORMIN; ANTIDIABETIC AGENT;

BIRTH WEIGHT; CESAREAN SECTION; DRUG TREATMENT FAILURE; FETUS OUTCOME; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HYPOGLYCEMIA; INSULIN TREATMENT; LARGE FOR GESTATIONAL AGE; MACROSOMIA; META ANALYSIS; NOTE; PERINATAL MORTALITY; PREECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY DIABETES MELLITUS; PREMATURE LABOR; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); SMALL FOR DATE INFANT; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; WEIGHT GAIN; DIABETES, GESTATIONAL; FEMALE; PREGNANCY;

DIABETES, GESTATIONAL; FEMALE; GLYBURIDE; HUMANS; HYPOGLYCEMIC AGENTS; INSULIN; METFORMIN; PREGNANCY;

EID: 84938936889     PISSN: 13565524     EISSN: 14736810     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/ebmed-2015-110186     Document Type: Note

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