Prevalence of NIDDM and impaired glucose tolerance in a rural and an urban population in Cameroon

Diabetologia

Volumn 40, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 824-829

  Mbanya, J C N ^a   Ngogang, J ^a   Salah, J N ^a   Minkoulou, E ^a   Balkau, B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YAOUNDÉ I   (Cameroon)

^b INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

75 g oral glucose tolerance test; Africans; Cameroon; Diabetes mellitus; Impaired glucose tolerance; Prevalence; Rural; Urban

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICA; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CAMEROON; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMPAIRED GLUCOSE TOLERANCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; ORAL GLUCOSE TOLERANCE TEST; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RURAL POPULATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; URBAN POPULATION;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; BLOOD GLUCOSE; BODY MASS INDEX; CAMEROON; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; FEMALE; GLUCOSE INTOLERANCE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; RURAL POPULATION; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SEX FACTORS; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 0030801066     PISSN: 0012186X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s001250050755     Document Type: Article

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