Prevalence of diabetes and impaired fasting glucose in a selected population with special reference to influence of family history and anthropometric measurements - The Kolkata policeman study

Journal of Association of Physicians of India

Volumn 56, Issue NOV., 2008, Pages 841-844

  Kumar, S ^a   Mukherjee, Sarmistha ^b   Mukhopadhyay, P ^a   Pandit, K ^a   Raychaudhuri, Moutusi ^a   Sengupta, N ^c   Ghosh, S ^e   Sarkar, S ^d   Mukherjee, S ^a   Chowdhury, Subhankar ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF POST GRADUATE MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH   (India)

^b B R Singh Hospital   (India)

^c NRS MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

^d VIVEKANANDA COLLEGE   (India)

^e NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BLOOD; BODY MASS; DIABETES MELLITUS; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; GLUCOSE INTOLERANCE; HUMAN; INDIA; MALE; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; PARENT; POLICE; PREVALENCE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTOR; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; WAIST HIP RATIO;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; ANTHROPOMETRY; BLOOD GLUCOSE; BODY MASS INDEX; DIABETES MELLITUS; GLUCOSE INTOLERANCE; HUMANS; INDIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARENTS; POLICE; PREVALENCE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; WAIST-HIP RATIO;

EID: 55949136938     PISSN: 00045772     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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