Influence of health care providers on the development of diabetes complications: Long-term follow-up from the Pittsburgh Epidemiology of Diabetes Complications Study

Diabetes Care

Volumn 25, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 1584-1590

  Zgibor, Janice C ^a,c   Songer, Thomas J ^a   Kelsey, Sheryl F ^a   Drash, Allan L ^b   Orchard, Trevor J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH GRADUATE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DEMOGRAPHY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE DURATION; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; KIDNEY DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORBIDITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEUROPATHY; RISK FACTOR; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; DIABETIC NEPHROPATHY; DIABETIC NEUROPATHY; FEMALE; INCIDENCE; MALE; MEDICINE; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICS;

ADULT; CORONARY ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 1; DIABETIC NEPHROPATHIES; DIABETIC NEUROPATHIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SPECIALTIES, MEDICAL;

EID: 0036729914     PISSN: 01495992     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2337/diacare.25.9.1584     Document Type: Article

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