Self-perceived health and symptoms of elderly persons with diabetes and impaired glucose tolerance

Age and Ageing

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 59-66

  Hiltunen, Liisa ^a   Keinänen Kiukaanniemi, Sirkka ^a   Läärä, Esa ^a   Kivelä, Sirkka Liisa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; IMPAIRED GLUCOSE TOLERANCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELF CONCEPT; SYMPTOM;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DEPRESSION; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; GLUCOSE INTOLERANCE; GLUCOSE TOLERANCE TEST; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; MALE; SELF CONCEPT;

EID: 0030029290     PISSN: 00020729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ageing/25.1.59     Document Type: Article

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