Gestational diabetes mellitus prevalence: Effect of the laboratory analytical variation

Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice

Volumn 109, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 493-499

  Agarwal, M M ^a   Dhatt, G S ^b   Othman, Y ^b  

^a UNITED ARAB EMIRATES UNIVERSITY   (United Arab Emirates)

^b TAWAM HOSPITAL   (United Arab Emirates)

Author keywords

Analytic error; Bias; Gestational diabetes mellitus; Glucose; Imprecision; Prevalence

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL;

ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; FEMALE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HOSPITAL LABORATORY; HUMAN; HYPERGLYCEMIA; ORAL GLUCOSE TOLERANCE TEST; PREGNANCY DIABETES MELLITUS; PREGNANT WOMAN; PREVALENCE; REFERENCE VALUE; REPRODUCIBILITY; ADULT; ANALYSIS; BLOOD; BLOOD ANALYSIS; DIABETES, GESTATIONAL; GLUCOSE TOLERANCE TEST; MASS SCREENING; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PROCEDURES; STANDARDS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UNITED ARAB EMIRATES;

ADULT; BLOOD CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; BLOOD GLUCOSE; DIABETES, GESTATIONAL; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; FEMALE; GLUCOSE TOLERANCE TEST; HUMANS; MASS SCREENING; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PREVALENCE; REFERENCE VALUES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; UNITED ARAB EMIRATES;

EID: 84940797297     PISSN: 01688227     EISSN: 18728227     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.diabres.2015.06.001     Document Type: Article

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