Counting drugs to understand the disease: The case of measuring the diabetes epidemic

Population Health Metrics

Volumn 5, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Støvring, Henrik ^a   Andersen, Morten ^a   Beck Nielsen, Henning ^b   Green, Anders ^a   Vach, Werner ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b ODENSE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIDIABETIC AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; DENMARK; DIABETES CONTROL; DIABETES MELLITUS; DRUG USE; EPIDEMIC; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIGRATION; MONITORING; MORTALITY; PHARMACOEPIDEMIOLOGY; PRESCRIPTION; PREVALENCE; SEX RATIO;

EID: 33847658880     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14787954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1478-7954-5-2     Document Type: Article

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