Prevalence of diabetes and impaired glucose tolerance in Nigerians, Jamaicans and US blacks

Ethnicity and Disease

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 190-200

  Rotimi, Charles N ^a   Cooper, Richard S ^a   Okosun, Ike S ^a   Olatunbosun, Samuel T ^b   Bella, Andrew F ^b   Wilks, Rainford ^c   Bennett, Franklyn ^d   Cruickshank, J Kennedy ^d   Forrester, Terrence E ^c  

^a LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IBADAN   (Nigeria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Jamaica)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Africa; Body Mass Index; Diabetes

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; ARTICLE; BIOMETRY; BODY MASS; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; GLUCOSE INTOLERANCE; HUMAN; JAMAICA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEGRO; NIGERIA; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; PREVALENCE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; AGED; BIOMETRY; BODY MASS INDEX; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; FEMALE; GLUCOSE INTOLERANCE; HUMANS; JAMAICA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NIGERIA; ODDS RATIO; PREVALENCE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0033094871     PISSN: 1049510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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