Diet, diabetes, hypertension and blacks

Ethnicity and Disease

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 272-277

  Gaskin, Robert ^a  

^a Geriatric Hospital   (Barbados)

Author keywords

Blacks; Diabetes; G6PD deficiency; Hypertension; Persistent hyperglycemia; Western diet

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED GLYCATION END PRODUCT; GLUCOSE 6 PHOSPHATE;

AFRICAN AMERICAN; BLOOD; CARBOHYDRATE DIET; ETHNOLOGY; GENETICS; HUMAN; HYPERGLYCEMIA; HYPERTENSION; METABOLISM; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; PREVALENCE; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; DIETARY CARBOHYDRATES; GLUCOSE-6-PHOSPHATE; GLYCOSYLATION END PRODUCTS, ADVANCED; HUMANS; HYPERGLYCEMIA; HYPERTENSION; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 0033089243     PISSN: 1049510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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