Ethnic variation in the health burden of self-reported diabetes in adults aged 75 and older

Ethnicity and Disease

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 22-32

  Black, Sandra A ^a,b   Jakobi, Patricia L ^a,b   Rush, Ronald D ^a   DiNuzzo, Anthony R ^a   Garcia, Dante ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL BRANCH   (United States)

^b University of Texas Medical Branch School of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

African Americans; Chronic Conditions; Diabetes; Elderly; Mexican Americans; Non Hispanic Whites

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CAUCASIAN; COMORBIDITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COST OF ILLNESS; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DIABETES MELLITUS; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ETHNOLOGY; HISPANIC; HUMAN; INCOME; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COMORBIDITY; COST OF ILLNESS; DIABETES COMPLICATIONS; DIABETES MELLITUS; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; HUMANS; INCOME; MEXICAN AMERICANS; ODDS RATIO; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; TEXAS;

EID: 0033428401     PISSN: 1049510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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