Diabetes mellitus in older adults: Underdiagnosis and undertreatment

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 340-341

  Halter, Jeffrey B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIABETIC NEPHROPATHY; EDITORIAL; GERIATRIC PATIENT; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HYPERGLYCEMIA; HYPERTENSION;

EID: 0034023080     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: 15325415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.2000.tb02659.x     Document Type: Editorial

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