Selected factors associated with diabetes mellitus in a rural Palestinian community

Medical Science Monitor

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2003, Pages

  Husseini, Abdullatif ^a,c   Abdul Rahim, Hanan ^a,c   Giacaman, Rita ^a   Jervell, Jak ^b   Bjertness, Espen ^c  

^a BIRZEIT UNIVERSITY   (Palestine)

^b OSLO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Associated factors; Diabetes mellitus; Palestine; Rural

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE; LIPID; TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

ADULT; AGE; AGING; ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; BLOOD CHEMISTRY; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BODY MASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DIABETES MELLITUS; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; LIPID BLOOD LEVEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; ORAL GLUCOSE TOLERANCE TEST; PALESTINE; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREVALENCE; PREVENTIVE MEDICINE; RISK FACTOR; RURAL POPULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TRIACYLGLYCEROL BLOOD LEVEL;

ADULT; ARABS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MIDDLE EAST; RISK FACTORS; RURAL POPULATION;

EID: 0037495851     PISSN: 12341010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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