Prognostic indices for intra-hospital mortality in Nigerian diabetic NIDDM patients: Role of gender and hypertension

Journal of Diabetes and its Complications

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 84-89

  Kolawole, B A ^a   Ajayi, A A Leslie ^a  

^a OBAFEMI AWOLOWO UNIVERSITY   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

Black Africans; Hyperosmolar coma; Hypertensive diabetics; Male sex; Mortality; NIDDM; Thrombotic complications

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT; ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT;

ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY MASS; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLINICAL TRIAL; DRUG USE; FEMALE; GENDER; HUMAN; HYPEROSMOLAR COMA; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; NEGRO; NIGERIA; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STROKE;

ADULT; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; DIABETIC ANGIOPATHIES; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NIGERIA; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 0034603292     PISSN: 10568727     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1056-8727(00)00069-6     Document Type: Article

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