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Meeting Report

Gestational diabetes: screening for all, which test and which treatment?

Gerard HA Visser Department of Obstetrics, University Medical Center, Utrecht, The Netherlands. [email protected]; Department of Obstetrics, University Medical Center, Utrecht, The Netherlands. [email protected]
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Harold W de Valk Department of Internal Medicine, University Medical Center, Utrecht, The Netherlands; Department of Internal Medicine, University Medical Center, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Pages 165-167 | Published online: 10 Jan 2014

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