1. Gestational diabetes mellitus and progression to type 2 diabetes
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Delia Ioana CUDALBA, Nicolae GICA, Radu BOTEZATU, Corina GICA, Anca Marina CIOBANU, Brindușa Ana CIMPOCA, Alina VEDUTA, Gheorghe PELTECU, and Anca Maria PANAITESCU
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gestational diabetes mellitus ,pregnancy ,type 2 diabetes ,Medicine ,Medicine (General) ,R5-920 - Abstract
Diabetes mellitus is a metabolic disease with life-threatening morbidity and with epidemic spread. This metabolic disorder affects an increasing number of pregnant women. General practitioners and obstetricians need to know how some occult maternal metabolic disorders could be revealed by pregnancy and how pregnancy could influence the fetal health and the long-term progression of maternal disease. Pregnancy is considered a stress test for life and diabetes mellitus is a good example to illustrate this correlation.
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- 2021
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