Comparison of citrate-fluoride-EDTA with Fluoride-EDTA additives to stabilize plasma glucose measurements in women being screened during pregnancy with an oral glucose tolerance test: A prospective observational study

Clinical Chemistry

Volumn 62, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 886-887

  Daly, Niamh ^a   Flynn, Iseult ^a   Carroll, Ciara ^a   Stapleton, Mary ^a   O'Kelly, Ruth ^a   Turner, Michael J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CITRIC ACID; EDETIC ACID; FLUORIDE; GLUCOSE; STABILIZING AGENT; EXCIPIENT;

BLOOD SAMPLING; CELL SEPARATION; FEMALE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; GLUCOSE TOLERANCE TEST; GLYCOLYSIS; HUMAN; LETTER; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PHLEBOTOMY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY DIABETES MELLITUS; PRENATAL SCREENING; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; ADULT; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PROCEDURES; STANDARD; STANDARDS;

ADULT; CITRIC ACID; EDETIC ACID; EXCIPIENTS; FEMALE; FLUORIDES; GLUCOSE TOLERANCE TEST; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; REFERENCE STANDARDS;

EID: 84971355841     PISSN: 00099147     EISSN: 15308561     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1373/clinchem.2016.254466     Document Type: Letter

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