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Diagnosis of gestational diabetes mellitus—a comparison of two screening tests. Which is the way ahead?

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boxed-textvan Leeuwen M et al. (2007) Comparison of accuracy measures of two screening tests for gestational diabetes mellitus. Diabetes Care 30: 2779–2784

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  1. D Simmons is Consultant Diabetologist at the Institute of Metabolic Science, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, UK, and Professorial Fellow at the School of Rural Health, University of Melbourne, Shepparton, Australia.,

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