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THE EXCRETION OF GLUCOSE DURING NORMAL PREGNANCY AND AFTER DELIVERY
Author(s) -
Davison J. M.,
Lovedale C.
Publication year - 1974
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.1471-0528.1974.tb00360.x
Subject(s) - glycosuria , excretion , pregnancy , medicine , urine , urinary system , obstetrics , physiology , endocrinology , diabetes mellitus , biology , genetics
Summary Twenty‐one healthy pregnant women took part in a serial study in which their 24‐hour urinary excretion of glucose was measured during the final weeks of pregnancy, on every day of the first week after delivery where possible, and again at eight weeks post partum. In addition, for the whole of several weeks before delivery and continuously after delivery, every urine sample passed was tested with “Clinistix”. Every woman showed a raised excretion of glucose in pregnancy compared to that at eight weeks after delivery, and the pattern was characteristically intermittent. After delivery there was almost always a rapid fall in glucose excretion which reached non‐pregnant levels in all subjects within a week of delivery. The pattern of return to normal throws no light on the phenomenon of pregnancy glycosuria.