Health-Related Quality of Life of Diabetic Pima Indians

Medical Care

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 97-102

  Johnson, Jeffrey A ^a   Nowatzki, Thomas E ^a   Coons, Stephen Joel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Pima Indian; Quality of life; SF 36

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; AMERICAN INDIAN; ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMETRY; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; REPRODUCIBILITY; STANDARD; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; ARIZONA; COMORBIDITY; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HUMANS; INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 0030075441     PISSN: 00257079     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005650-199602000-00001     Document Type: Article

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