title: Home glucose monitoring in management of diabetes in pregnancy in Singapore.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, National University Hospital, Singapore.
authors.forename: L P
authors.initials: LP
authors.lastname: Kek
authors.forename: A C
authors.initials: AC
authors.lastname: Thai
authors.forename: S M
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Ahmed
authors.forename: S S
authors.initials: SS
authors.lastname: Ratnam
mesh_terms: 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
chemical_list: D001786:Blood Glucose