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Major flaw detected in pregnancy test – The Australian Financial Review

In a finding that could change world practice, ANU researchers devise a way to improve diagnosis rates of dangerous gestational diabetes in pregnant women.

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Professor Christopher Nolan, an endocrinologist at ANU Medical School, with professors Julia Potter and Peter Hickman from ACT Pathology, analysed more than 12,000 women for their study published in Diabetes Care, the clinical journal of the American Diabetes Association.
They found substantially higher rates of diagnosis when the blood samples were processed quickly, within 10 minutes.
International guidelines recommend the blood is centrifuged (spun to separate the cells) within 30 minutes o…

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