Is there a glycemic threshold for mortality risk?

Diabetes Care

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 696-699

  Balkau, Beverley ^a   Bertrais, Sandrine ^a   Ducimetiere, Pierre ^a   Eschwege, Eveline ^a  

^a INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CAUSE OF DEATH; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; RISK FACTOR;

EID: 0032945921     PISSN: 01495992     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2337/diacare.22.5.696     Document Type: Article

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