Experts discussed need for long-term effects of oral agents to treat gestational diabetes
A recent study in the New England Journal of Medicine
showed that treatment with metformin when compared with treatment with insulin
was not associated with increased perinatal complications in women with
gestational diabetes. Women in the study also preferred metformin.
The results are encouraging, said James Lenhard, MD,
medical director of Christiana Care Health Systems Diabetes &
Metabolic Disease Center, Wilmington, Del...
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