Cardiovascular risk factors in African-Americans with varying degrees of glucose intolerance: Comparison of new American Diabetes Association versus Old World Health Organization diagnostic criteria [5]

Diabetes Care

Volumn 22, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 1588-1590

  Osei, Kwame ^a,b   Gaillard, Trudy ^a   Schuster, Dara P ^a  

^a THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY WEXNER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b 485 McCampbell Hall ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CORONARY RISK; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIABETIC ANGIOPATHY; GLUCOSE INTOLERANCE; HUMAN; INSULIN SENSITIVITY; LETTER; NEGRO;

ADULT; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; DIABETES MELLITUS; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GLUCOSE INTOLERANCE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTORS; SOCIETIES, MEDICAL; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 0032820324     PISSN: 01495992     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2337/diacare.22.9.1588     Document Type: Letter

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