Health status and practices of urban Caribbean Latinos with diabetes mellitus

Ethnicity and Disease

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 158-166

  Brunt, Melanie J ^a   Milbauer, Marian J ^b   Ebner, Susana A ^a   Levenson, Suzette M ^b   Millen, Barbara E ^b   Quatromoni, Paula ^b   Chipkin, Stuart R ^a,c  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c BAYSTATE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Diabetes Knowledge; Hispanic; Latino; Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BODY IMAGE; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; ETHNOLOGY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; HISPANIC; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MIDDLE AGED; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; UNITED STATES; URBAN POPULATION;

ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BODY IMAGE; BOSTON; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; FEMALE; FOOD HABITS; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEYS; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS; MALE; MEDICAL RECORDS; MIDDLE AGED; URBAN POPULATION; WEST INDIES;

EID: 0031602707     PISSN: 1049510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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