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Letters to the Editor

Current evidence about better perinatal outcomes associated to one step approach in the diagnosis of gestational diabetes mellitus is not of high quality

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Pages 1580-1582 | Received 05 Oct 2019, Accepted 20 Apr 2020, Published online: 28 Apr 2020

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