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Screening gestational diabetes mellitus: The role of maternal age

OBJECTIVE: Using a specific cutoff of fasting plasma glucose (FPG) to screen gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) can reduce the use of oral glucose tolerance tests (OGTT). Since the prevalence of GDM increases with age, this screening method may not be appropriate in healthcare systems where women b...

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Autores principales: Kuo, Chun-Heng, Chen, Szu-Chi, Fang, Chi-Tai, Nien, Feng-Jung, Wu, En-Tzu, Lin, Shin-Yu, Chuang, Lee-Ming, Lee, Chien-Nan, Li, Hung-Yuan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5351872/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28296923
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0173049