Foot ulcer risk is lower in South-Asian and African-Caribbean compared with European diabetic patients in the U.K.: The North-West diabetes foot care study

Diabetes Care

Volumn 28, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 1869-1875

  Abbott, Caroline A ^a,b   Garrow, Adam P ^b   Carrington, Anne L ^a   Morris, Julie ^b   Van Ross, Ernest R ^b   Boulton, Andrew J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b WITHINGTON HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INSULIN; ORAL ANTIDIABETIC AGENT;

ADULT; AFRICAN CARIBBEAN; AGED; ARTERY DISEASE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETIC FOOT; DIABETIC NEUROPATHY; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; EUROPE; FEMALE; FOOT MALFORMATION; FOOT ULCER; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POPULATION RESEARCH; RISK; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOUTH ASIA; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; UNITED KINGDOM;

AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; AGE FACTORS; AGE OF ONSET; ASIA; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CARIBBEAN REGION; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 1; DIABETIC FOOT; DIABETIC NEUROPATHIES; FEMALE; FOOT ULCER; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 23044459169     PISSN: 01495992     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2337/diacare.28.8.1869     Document Type: Article

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