Are persons with diabetes practicing healthier behaviors in the year 2001? Results from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System

Preventive Medicine

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 203-208

  Okoro, Catherine A ^a,b   Mokdad, Ali H ^a   Ford, Earl S ^a   Bowman, Barbara A ^a   Vinicor, Frank ^a   Giles, Wayne H ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR CHRONIC DISEASE PREVENTION AND HEALTH PROMOTION   (United States)

^b CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

Body mass index; BRFSS; Diabetes; Health behavior; Obesity; Overweight; Smoking

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL; GLUCOSE;

ADULT; AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BLOOD PRESSURE; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; FOOT; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFLUENZA VACCINATION; INSTITUTIONAL CARE; MALE; MEDICAL PRACTICE; OBESITY; OPHTHALMOLOGY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SELF MONITORING; SELF REPORT; SMOKING HABIT; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0347662334     PISSN: 00917435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2003.09.039     Document Type: Article

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