Home glucose monitoring in management of diabetes in pregnancy in Singapore.
The incidence for diabetes in pregnancy for 10,941 deliveries in the department over a 3 1/2 year period is 5.04% (551 patients). Of these, 33.2% (183 patients), were recruited for home glucose monitoring programme. The gestational diabetics form 76.3%, while pregestational diabetics form 23.7% of the patients. The total period of hospitalisation was less than 4 weeks in 89.4% of patients. The corrected (excluding those with birthweight of less than 1000 G) perinatal mortality rate was 5.78 per 1000.
Kek
L P
LP
Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, National University Hospital, Singapore.
Thai
A C
AC
Ahmed
S M
SM
Ratnam
S S
SS
D000328:Adult; D001786:Blood Glucose / Q000032:analysis; D015190:Blood Glucose Self-Monitoring; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D011247:Pregnancy; D011256:Pregnancy Outcome; D011254:Pregnancy in Diabetics / Q000097:blood*; D012846:Singapore; D013997:Time Factors
D001786:Blood Glucose