Prognostic indices of diabetes mortality

Ethnicity and Disease

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 721-725

  Ogbera, Anthonia Okeoghene ^a   Chinenye, Sunny ^b   Onyekwere, Asabamaka ^a   Fasanmade, Olufemi ^a  

^a LAGOS STATE UNIVERSITY TEACHING HOSPITAL   (Nigeria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORT HARCOURT   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

Diabetes mellitus; Hospitalization length of stay

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COST OF ILLNESS; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIABETIC FOOT; HUMAN; HYPERGLYCEMIA; HYPERTENSION; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORTALITY; NIGERIA; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; PROGNOSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DIABETES COMPLICATIONS; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIABETIC FOOT; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; HYPERGLYCEMIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; NIGERIA; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 36348929488     PISSN: 1049510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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