High Prevalence of Peripheral Arterial Disease but Low Antiplatelet Treatment Rates in Elderly Primary Care Patients with Diabetes [7]

Diabetes Care

Volumn 26, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 3357-3358

  Lange, Stefan ^a   Diehm, Curt ^b   Darius, Harald ^c   Haberl, Roman ^d   Allenberg, Jens Rainer ^b   Pittrow, David ^e   Schuster, Alexander ^f   Von Stritzky, Berndt ^g   Tepohl, Gerhart ^h   Trampisch, Hans Joachim ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^c VIVANTES KLINIKUM NEUKÖLLN   (Germany)

^d Department of Clinical Chemistry   (Germany)

^e DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^f 3P Consulting   (Germany)

^g Medical Department   (Germany)

^h Practice for Angiology   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT;

ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; ARTERY DISEASE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COMORBIDITY; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CORONARY RISK; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DOPPLER FLOWMETER; FOOT AMPUTATION; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; INTERMITTENT CLAUDICATION; LEG REVASCULARIZATION; LETTER; PATIENT INFORMATION; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SECONDARY PREVENTION; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ARTERIAL OCCLUSIVE DISEASES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIABETIC ANGIOPATHIES; GERMANY; HUMANS; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASES; PLATELET AGGREGATION INHIBITORS; PREVALENCE;

EID: 10744223601     PISSN: 01495992     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2337/diacare.26.12.3357     Document Type: Letter

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