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NON-GLUCOSE REDUCING SUBSTANCES IN PREGNANCY
Article first published online: 23 AUG 2005
DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-0528.1972.tb15784.x
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BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology
Volume 79, Issue 3, pages 207–211, March 1972
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Macdonald, H. N., Good, W., Schwarz, K. and Stone, J. (1972), NON-GLUCOSE REDUCING SUBSTANCES IN PREGNANCY. BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, 79: 207–211. doi: 10.1111/j.1471-0528.1972.tb15784.x
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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.