Epidemiology of diabetes among Arab Americans

Diabetes Care

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 308-313

  Jaber, Linda A ^a   Brown, Morton B ^b   Hammad, Adnan ^c   Nowak, Sandra N ^a   Zhu, Qian ^b   Ghafoor, Anisa ^c   Herman, William H ^b  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c Arab Community Center for Economic and Social Services   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARAB; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; DEMOGRAPHY; DIABETES MELLITUS; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; IMPAIRED GLUCOSE TOLERANCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL SOCIETY; ORAL GLUCOSE TOLERANCE TEST; PREVALENCE; SEX DIFFERENCE; UNITED STATES; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; AGE DISTRIBUTION; BODY CONSTITUTION; GLUCOSE INTOLERANCE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; SEX RATIO; STATISTICS;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARABS; BODY CONSTITUTION; BODY MASS INDEX; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; GLUCOSE INTOLERANCE; HUMANS; MALE; MICHIGAN; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; SEX DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 0041808928     PISSN: 01495992     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2337/diacare.26.2.308     Document Type: Article

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