Predictors of incident diabetes mellitus in Basrah, Iraq

Annals of Nutrition and Metabolism

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 277-280

  Mansour, Abbas Ali ^a   Al Jazairi, Meelad Imad ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASRAH   (Iraq)

^b Al Faiha Hospital Basrah   (Iraq)

Author keywords

Anthropometric; Diabetes mellitus; Iraq; Predictors

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANTHROPOMETRY; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INCIDENCE; IRAQ; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEX RATIO; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STROKE; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; WAIST HIP RATIO;

ABDOMINAL FAT; ADULT; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS INDEX; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; INCIDENCE; IRAQ; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; WAIST-HIP RATIO;

EID: 34548071454     PISSN: 02506807     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000105449     Document Type: Article

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