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Self-monitoring of blood glucose during pregnancy: indications and limitations

Self-monitoring of blood glucose (SMBG) is an important tool to treat diabetes during pregnancy. However, proper implementation of SMBG in pregnant women requires understanding of its applications and limitations. This article reviews issues related to the implementation, efficacy, and accuracy of S...

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Autores principales: Negrato, Carlos Antonio, Zajdenverg, Lenita
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3538628/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23259688
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1758-5996-4-54
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description Self-monitoring of blood glucose (SMBG) is an important tool to treat diabetes during pregnancy. However, proper implementation of SMBG in pregnant women requires understanding of its applications and limitations. This article reviews issues related to the implementation, efficacy, and accuracy of SMBG and discusses factors that can confound results of SMBG during pregnancy.
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spelling pubmed-35386282013-01-10 Self-monitoring of blood glucose during pregnancy: indications and limitations Negrato, Carlos Antonio Zajdenverg, Lenita Diabetol Metab Syndr Review Self-monitoring of blood glucose (SMBG) is an important tool to treat diabetes during pregnancy. However, proper implementation of SMBG in pregnant women requires understanding of its applications and limitations. This article reviews issues related to the implementation, efficacy, and accuracy of SMBG and discusses factors that can confound results of SMBG during pregnancy. BioMed Central 2012-12-22 /pmc/articles/PMC3538628/ /pubmed/23259688 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1758-5996-4-54 Text en Copyright ©2012 Negrato and Zajdenverg; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3538628/
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