Preventing diabetes - Time is running out

New Zealand Medical Journal

Volumn 117, Issue 1207, 2004, Pages

  Scragg, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODY MASS; DIABETES MELLITUS; EDITORIAL; ETHNIC GROUP; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INSULIN RESISTANCE; NEW ZEALAND; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; PREVALENCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; ABORIGINE; ADULT; ETHNOLOGY; NOTE; OBESITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY;

ADULT; DIABETES MELLITUS; HUMANS; INSULIN RESISTANCE; NEW ZEALAND; OBESITY; OCEANIC ANCESTRY GROUP; PREVALENCE;

EID: 16644380258     PISSN: 11758716     EISSN: 11758716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Editorial

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