Predicting prediabetes and diabetes: Can we do it? is it worth it?

Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine

Volumn 164, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 198-199

  Gillman, Matthew W ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN A1C;

CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; HYPERGLYCEMIA; IMPAIRED GLUCOSE TOLERANCE; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; OBESITY; ORAL GLUCOSE TOLERANCE TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCREENING TEST; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

BLOOD GLUCOSE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; HUMANS; HYPERGLYCEMIA; PREDIABETIC STATE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 75849138674     PISSN: 10724710     EISSN: 15383628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archpediatrics.2009.270     Document Type: Editorial

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