The epidemic of type 2 diabetes is a statistical artefact

Diabetologia

Volumn 48, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 1456-1458

  Green, A ^a,b   Stovring H ^b   Andersen, M ^b   Beck Nielsen, H ^a  

^a ODENSE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEMOGRAPHY; EPIDEMIC; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MORTALITY; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; OBESITY; PRESCRIPTION; PREVALENCE; PRIMARY PREVENTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; REVIEW;

ARTIFACTS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DENMARK; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DRUG UTILIZATION; HUMANS; HYPOGLYCEMIC AGENTS; PRESCRIPTIONS, DRUG;

EID: 23844513412     PISSN: 0012186X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00125-005-1841-0     Document Type: Review

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