The relationship of menstrual irregularity to type 2 diabetes in Pima Indian women

Diabetes Care

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 346-349

  Roumain, Janine ^a   Charles, M Aline ^a   De Courten, Maximilian P ^a   Hanson, Robert L ^a   Brodie, Todd D ^b   Pettitt, David J ^a   Knowler, William C ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DIABETES AND DIGESTIVE AND KIDNEY DISEASES   (United States)

^b MARICOPA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMERICAN INDIAN; ARTICLE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENSTRUAL IRREGULARITY; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; OBESITY; ORAL GLUCOSE TOLERANCE TEST; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; ARIZONA; BLOOD GLUCOSE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY CONSTITUTION; BODY MASS INDEX; BODY WEIGHT; CONTRACEPTIVES, ORAL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; FEMALE; GLUCOSE TOLERANCE TEST; HEMOGLOBIN A, GLYCOSYLATED; HUMANS; INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MENSTRUATION DISTURBANCES; OBESITY; ODDS RATIO; PREVALENCE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0031935177     PISSN: 01495992     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2337/diacare.21.3.346     Document Type: Article

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