Standardized comparison of glucose intolerance in West African-origin populations of rural and urban Cameroon, Jamaica, and Caribbean migrants to Britain

Diabetes Care

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 434-440

  Mbanya, Jean Claude N ^a   Cruickshank, J Kennedy ^b   Forrester, Terrence ^c   Balkau, Beverley ^d   Ngogang, Jeanne Y ^a   Riste, Lisa ^b   Forhan, Anne ^d   Anderson, Norma Mcfarlane ^c   Bennett, Franklyn ^c   Wilks, Rainford ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YAOUNDÉ I   (Cameroon)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Jamaica)

^d INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICA; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CAMEROON; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; ENVIRONMENT; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; GLUCOSE INTOLERANCE; HUMAN; IMPAIRED GLUCOSE TOLERANCE; JAMAICA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIGRATION; ORAL GLUCOSE TOLERANCE TEST; PREVALENCE; RURAL POPULATION; STANDARDIZATION; UNITED KINGDOM; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 0033016849     PISSN: 01495992     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2337/diacare.22.3.434     Document Type: Article

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