RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Increased blood viscosity and tachypnoea in infants of diabetic mothers.
JF Archives of Disease in Childhood
JO Arch Dis Child
FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd and Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health
SP 910
OP 912
DO 10.1136/adc.61.9.910
VO 61
IS 9
A1 K Violaris
A1 E Bitzos
A1 N Rudolph
YR 1986
UL http://adc.bmj.com/content/61/9/910.abstract
AB Tachypnoea was significantly more common in class B than in class A or C infants of diabetic mothers. Whole blood viscosity at a standardised packed cell volume and moderately low shear rate was significantly higher in infants of diabetic mothers with tachypnoea than in those without tachypnoea or healthy controls.