Characteristics and outcome of type 2 diabetes in urban Aboriginal people: The Fremantle Diabetes Study

Internal Medicine Journal

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 59-63

  Davis, T M E ^a,d   McAullay, D ^b,c   Davis, W A ^a   Bruce, D G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c Office of Aboriginal Health   (Australia)

^d FREMANTLE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Aboriginal people; Complications; Diabetes; Mortality; Quality of life

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; CREATININE; GLUCOSE;

ABORIGINE; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ALBUMINURIA; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; CULTURAL FACTOR; DISABILITY; FEMALE; GLYCEMIC CONTROL; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; SMOKING; URBAN POPULATION;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE OF ONSET; AGED; ANTHROPOMETRY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; COHORT STUDIES; CULTURE; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; DIABETIC NEPHROPATHIES; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEMOGLOBIN A, GLYCOSYLATED; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; INCOME; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCEANIC ANCESTRY GROUP; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; QUALITY OF LIFE; RISK FACTORS; SMOKING; SOCIAL CONDITIONS; URBAN HEALTH; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

EID: 33845532372     PISSN: 14440903     EISSN: 14455994     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1445-5994.2006.01247.x     Document Type: Article

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