Metabolic control in a nationally representative diabetic elderly sample in Costa Rica: Patients at community health centers vs. patients at other health care settings

BMC International Health and Human Rights

Volumn 8, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Brenes Camacho, Gilbert ^a,b   Rosero Bixby, Luis ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE COSTA RICA   (Costa Rica)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLYCOSYLATED HEMOGLOBIN; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN; TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COSTA RICA; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; FEMALE; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CENTER; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METABOLIC REGULATION; PATIENT CARE; RISK FACTOR; SELF REPORT; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TRIACYLGLYCEROL BLOOD LEVEL;

EID: 44349127827     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1472698X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-698X-8-5     Document Type: Article

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