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NON‐GLUCOSE REDUCING SUBSTANCES IN PREGNANCY
Author(s) -
Macdonald H. N.,
Good W.,
Schwarz K.,
Stone Joan
Publication year - 1972
Publication title -
bjog: an international journal of obstetrics and gynaecology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.157
H-Index - 164
eISSN - 1471-0528
pISSN - 1470-0328
DOI - 10.1111/j.1471-0528.1972.tb15784.x
Subject(s) - pregnancy , medicine , physiology , endocrinology , obstetrics , biology , genetics
Summary The mean random blood concentration of non‐glucose reducing substances is lower in 540 pregnant women than in 56 non‐pregnant controls. The mean blood levels of non‐glucose reducing substances were also measured during a 50 g. oral glucose tolerance test on 412 women in pregnancy and the puerperium and were little different from random levels; the levels at 2½ hours were lower than those fasting. A significant negative correlation of blood glucose levels and those of non‐glucose reducing substances may be a technical artefact, although a functional relationship cannot be excluded. The levels of non‐glucose reducing substances do not appear to increase during pregnancy, but the range of values is so wide, and at present, unpredictable that blood glucose should be measured by a method for “true” glucose in pregnant women as in others.