Diabetic end-stage renal disease in the indigenous population of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands

Nephrology

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 291-295

  Abidi, Syed M ^a   Negrete, Hilmer O ^a   Zahid, Imran ^a   Bennett, Peter H ^b   Nelson, Robert G ^b,c  

^a Public Health and Hospital Emergency Preparedness Office   (Northern Mariana Islands)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DIABETES AND DIGESTIVE AND KIDNEY DISEASES   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Carolinians; Chamorros; End stage renal disease; Survival; Type 2 diabetes

Indexed keywords

ABORIGINE; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; DIABETES MELLITUS; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; HEMODIALYSIS; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; KIDNEY DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MASS SCREENING; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; NORTHERN MARIANA ISLANDS; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUBSTITUTION THERAPY; SURVIVAL;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; DIABETIC NEPHROPATHIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MICRONESIA; MIDDLE AGED; REGISTRIES; RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY;

EID: 21344471712     PISSN: 13205358     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1797.2005.00415.x     Document Type: Article

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