Failure to control risk factors among patients with type 2 diabetes; experience from a Greek cohort

Primary Care Diabetes

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 249-252

  Kollias, Anastasios ^a   Bliziotis, Ioannis A ^a   Xilomenos, Apostolos ^b   Tolis, Apostolos ^b  

^a SOTIRIA GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^b Gennimatas Hospital   (Greece)

Author keywords

Cardiovascular risk factors; Control; Diabetes

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT; HEMOGLOBIN A1C; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL COENZYME A REDUCTASE INHIBITOR; INSULIN; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; ORAL ANTIDIABETIC AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DISEASE CONTROL; FEMALE; GREECE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; HYPOLIPEMIA; LIFESTYLE MODIFICATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

AGE OF ONSET; AGED; BODY MASS INDEX; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; COHORT STUDIES; DIABETES COMPLICATIONS; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; DIABETIC ANGIOPATHIES; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; GREECE; HUMANS; HYPOGLYCEMIC AGENTS; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTORS; TREATMENT FAILURE;

EID: 70649097292     PISSN: 17519918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pcd.2009.08.001     Document Type: Article

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