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American Journal of Epidemiology Vol. 152, No. 11 : 1015-1016
Copyright © 2000 by The Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health

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Invited Commentary: Prenatal Glucose Screening and Gestational Diabetes

Pierre Buekens

From the Department of Maternal and Child Health, School of Public Health, Rosenau Hall, CB#7400, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7400. (Correspondence to Dr. Pierre Buekens at this address (e-mail: Pierre_Buekens@UNC.EDU)).


   INTRODUCTION
 
Screening for gestational diabetes has been widely recommended in the United States (1Go). However, this relative consensus is not shared by everyone (2GoGoGo–5Go). One difficulty is that gestational diabetes is not a disease per se. It is an abnormal laboratory value, defined as glucose intolerance first detected during pregnancy. Furthermore, the criteria for glucose intolerance vary (1Go). There is reasonably good evidence that gestational diabetes . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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