Prevalence of diabetes in adult patients with Down's syndrome living in a residential home [6]

Diabetes Care

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 705-706

  Ohyama, Yoshio ^a,d   Utsugi, Toshihiro ^a   Uchiyama, Tsuyoshi ^a   Hanaoka, Takuji ^c   Tomono, Shoichi ^b   Kurabayashi, Masahiko ^a  

^a Department of Internal Medicine ^*  (Japan)

^b GUNMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Assoc Welf Mentally Physically H   (Japan)

^d GUNMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DATA ANALYSIS; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DOWN SYNDROME; HUMAN; LETTER; LIFE EXPECTANCY;

EID: 0034074366     PISSN: 01495992     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2337/diacare.23.5.705a     Document Type: Letter

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