Economic burden of diabetes and hypertension in CARICOM states

Social and Economic Studies

Volumn 58, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 175-197

  Abdulkadri, Abdullahi O ^a   Cunningham Myrie, Colette ^a   Forrester, Terrence ^a  

^a Sir George Alleyne ^*  (United Kingdom)

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