Pakistan National Diabetes Survey: Prevalence of glucose intolerance and associated factors in the Punjab Province of Pakistan

Primary Care Diabetes

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 79-83

  Shera, A Samad ^a   Basit, Abdul ^b   Fawwad, Asher ^b   Hakeem, Rubina ^b   Ahmedani, Muhammad Yakoob ^b   Hydrie, M Zafar Iqbal ^b,c   Khwaja, I A ^a  

^a Diabetic Association of Pakistan   (Pakistan)

^b BAQAI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Diabetes; Pakistan; Prevalence; Punjab

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; GLUCOSE INTOLERANCE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; IMPAIRED GLUCOSE TOLERANCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBESITY; ORAL GLUCOSE TOLERANCE TEST; PAKISTAN; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOM SAMPLE; STRATIFIED SAMPLE; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; AGE DISTRIBUTION; BODY MASS; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; GLUCOSE TOLERANCE TEST; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTOR; SEX RATIO; WAIST HIP RATIO;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; BODY MASS INDEX; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; FEMALE; GLUCOSE INTOLERANCE; GLUCOSE TOLERANCE TEST; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; PAKISTAN; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; SEX DISTRIBUTION; WAIST-HIP RATIO;

EID: 77956704783     PISSN: 17519918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pcd.2010.01.003     Document Type: Article

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