Ethnicity and cardiovascular disease: The incidence of myocardial infarction in white, South Asian, and Afro-Caribbean patients with type 2 diabetes (U.K. prospective diabetes study 32)

Diabetes Care

Volumn 21, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 1271-1277

  Adler, Amanda I ^a,c   Neil, H Andrew W ^b   Stratton, Irene M ^a   Holman, Rury R ^a   Turner, Robert C ^a  

^a RADCLIFFE INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CAUCASIAN; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; RISK FACTOR; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADULT; AFRICA; AGE FACTORS; AGED; ASIA; CARIBBEAN REGION; ETHNIC GROUPS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PHYSICAL FITNESS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTORS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SMOKING; SOCIAL CLASS; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 0031905061     PISSN: 01495992     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2337/diacare.21.8.1271     Document Type: Article

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