Microvascular diabetic complications are more prevalent in India compared to Mauritius and the UK due to poorer diabetic control

Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice

Volumn 86, Issue 2, 2009, Pages

  Potluri, Rahul ^a   Purmah, Yanish ^b   Dowlut, Mohammad ^b   Sewpaul, Nilesh ^b   Lavu, Deepthi ^b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Complications; Diabetes; India; Mauritius; UK

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN A1C; INSULIN; METFORMIN; SULFONYLUREA DERIVATIVE;

ADULT; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES CONTROL; DIABETIC NEPHROPATHY; DIABETIC NEUROPATHY; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; DRUG USE; HUMAN; INDIA; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAURITIUS; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; PREVALENCE; UNITED KINGDOM;

AGE OF ONSET; AGED; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; DIABETIC ANGIOPATHIES; GREAT BRITAIN; HEMOGLOBIN A, GLYCOSYLATED; HUMANS; HYPOGLYCEMIC AGENTS; INDIA; MAURITIUS; MICROCIRCULATION; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE;

EID: 70349782170     PISSN: 01688227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.diabres.2009.08.008     Document Type: Letter

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