Obstetricians and gynaecologists are pitching for a one-step test to detect signs of diabetes in pregnant women and as a possible step towards preventing the disease in their babies.
The standard test involves cumbersome steps for screening and diagnosis, the cause for many dropouts, while the one-step, DIPSI test not only limits visits to the clinic to one rather than two but also involves few
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