In patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus, are glycosylated hemoglobin levels higher for those with Helicobacter pylori infection than those without infection?

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 144-146

  Fernandini Paredes, Gino G ^a   Mezones Holguin, Edward ^a,b   Vargas Gonzales, Rolando ^a   Pozo Briceño, Eugenio ^a   Rodriguez Morales, Alfonso J ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE PIURA   (Peru)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE LA FRONTERA   (Chile)

^c UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES   (Venezuela)

^d Collaborative Group of Clinical Infectious Diseases Research ^*  (Venezuela)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLYCOSYLATED HEMOGLOBIN;

ADULT; AUTONOMIC NEUROPATHY; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BLOOD GLUCOSE MONITORING; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; DYSPEPSIA; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HUMAN; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCREENING; SOCIAL STATUS; SYMPTOM; UREA BREATH TEST; DIABETES MELLITUS; HELICOBACTER INFECTION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED;

DIABETES COMPLICATIONS; FEMALE; HELICOBACTER INFECTIONS; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HEMOGLOBIN A, GLYCOSYLATED; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 46249113818     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/588846     Document Type: Letter

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