Hostname: page-component-586b7cd67f-t7czq Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-23T01:11:27.099Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

Glucose Tolerance in Twin Pregnancy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 2014

Doris M. Campbell
Affiliation:
Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Aberdeen, UK
Ian MacGillivray
Affiliation:
Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Aberdeen, UK

Abstract

Core share and HTML view are not available for this content. However, as you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button.

The hypothesis of a slower rate of glucose disappearance after intravenous glucose injection has been tested and proved in a sample of 54 women with twin pregnancies. Different standards for glucose tolerance being therefore required for these women, care should be taken before labelling them as diabetic.

Type
Session II: Pathophysiology of Twin Pregnancy
Copyright
Copyright © The International Society for Twin Studies 1979

References

REFERENCES

1. Amatuzio, DS, Stutzman, FL, Vanderbilt, MJ, Nesbitt, S (1953): Interpretation of the rapid intravenous glucose tolerance test in normal individuals and in mild diabetes mellitus. J Clin Invest 32:428435.Google Scholar
2. Campbell, DM, Campbell, AJ, MacGillivray, I (1974): Maternal characteristics of women having twin pregnancies. J Biosoc Sci 6:463470.Google Scholar
3. Campbell, DM, MacGillivray, I (1976): Glucose tolerance before the onset of preeclampsia. Eur J Obstet Gynecol Reprod Biol 6/5:235237.Google Scholar
4. Duncan, LJP (1956): The intravenous glucose tolerance test. Q J Exp Physiol 41:8596.Google Scholar
5. Fisher, PM, Hamilton, PM, Sutherland, HW, Stowers, JM (1974): The effect of pregnancy on intravenous glucose tolerance. J Obstet Gynaecol Br Commonw 81:285290.Google Scholar
6. Fisher, PM (1976): Glucose induced insulin response studies in relation to human pregnancy and diabetes mellitus. MD Thesis, University of Aberdeen, Chpt 1.Google Scholar
7. Garoff, L, Seppälä, M, (1973): Alphafetoprotein and human placental lactogen levels in maternal serum in multiple pregnancies. J Obstet Gynaecol Br Commonw 80:695700.Google Scholar
8. Gedda, L, Segni, G, Andreani, D, Casa, D, DiMarco, G (1969): Diabete e gemellogenesi. Acta Genet Med Gemellol 14:8790.Google Scholar
9. Gomez, E, Swapp, GH (1972): Personal communication.Google Scholar
10. Hytten, EE, Lind, T (1973): Indices of carbohydrate metabolism. Diagnostic indices in pregnancy. Documenta Geigy p 55.Google Scholar
11. Kemsley, WFF, Billewicz, WZ, Thomson, AM (1962): A new weight for height standard based on British anthropometric data. Br J Prev Soc Med 16:189195.Google Scholar
12. Masson, GM (1973): Plasma oestriol in normal and preeclamptic multiple pregnancies. Obstet Gynaecol 42:568573.Google Scholar
13. Singh, MM (1976): Carbohydrate metabolism in preeclampsia. Br J Obstet Gynaecol 83:124131.Google Scholar
14. Sutherland, HW (1974): Paper to Scientific Meeting of Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, Aberdeen, 09.Google Scholar
15. Sutherland, HW, Stowers, JM (1975): The detection of chemical diabetes during pregnancy using the intravenous glucose tolerance test. In “Carbohydrate Metabolism in Pregnancy and the New Born.” London: Churchill Livingstone, p 163.Google Scholar
16. Van der Molen, HJ (1963): Determination of plasma progesterone during pregnancy. Clin Chim Acta 8:943953.Google Scholar