The singapore national healthcare group diabetes registry - descriptive epidemiology of type 2 diabetes mellitus

Annals of the Academy of Medicine Singapore

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 348-353

  Heng, Bee Hoon ^a   Sun, Yan ^a   Cheah, Jason T S ^b   Jong, Michelle ^c  

^a NATIONAL HEALTHCARE GROUP   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL HEALTHCARE GROUP POLYCLINICS   (Singapore)

^c TAN TOCK SENG HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Comorbidities; Complications; Planning

Indexed keywords

ANTIDIABETIC AGENT; HEMOGLOBIN A1C; INSULIN;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; DIABETES CONTROL; DIABETIC CARDIOMYOPATHY; DIABETIC NEPHROPATHY; DIABETIC NEUROPATHY; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; DISEASE REGISTRY; DRUG USE; DYSLIPIDEMIA; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEMOGLOBIN DETERMINATION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INDIAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NATIONAL HEALTH ORGANIZATION; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; ORAL GLUCOSE TOLERANCE TEST; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASE; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SINGAPORE; SKIN DISEASE; AGED; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; INTRAMUSCULAR DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MIDDLE AGED; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; REGISTER; SEX RATIO; VERY ELDERLY;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMORBIDITY; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPOGLYCEMIC AGENTS; INJECTIONS, INTRAMUSCULAR; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REGISTRIES; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SINGAPORE;

EID: 77953404485     PISSN: 03044602     EISSN: 29724066     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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