Diabetes and obesity in the Louisiana Coushatta Indians

Ethnicity and Disease

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 48-58

  Gordon, Douglas L ^c   Cook, Curtiss B ^a   Scheer, W Douglas ^d   Oalmann, Margaret ^d   Boudreau, Donald A ^d   Borne, David ^d   Gatchair Rose, Andrea ^d   Weems, Andrea H ^b   Turner, Margie N ^e   Robinson, Ethel M ^e   Johnson, Terry ^e   Bourgeois, Peggy B ^c   DeMourelle, Karen M ^c   Harris, Denise ^c   Post, Carole C ^c   Franklin, Ora M ^c   Arabie, Melanie P ^c  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c General Health System   (United States)

^d LOUISIANA STATE UNIV MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e Coushatta Health Department ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Native Americans; Obesity; Overweight; Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AMERICAN INDIAN; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DIABETES MELLITUS; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; GLUCOSE INTOLERANCE; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTOR; SEX RATIO; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMMUNITY HEALTH PLANNING; DIABETES COMPLICATIONS; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; GLUCOSE INTOLERANCE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN; LOUISIANA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; SEX DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 0033428652     PISSN: 1049510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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