Racial disparities in all-cause mortality among veterans with type 2 diabetes

Journal of General Internal Medicine

Volumn 25, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1051-1056

  Lynch, Cheryl P ^a,b   Gebregziabher, Mulugeta ^a,c   Echols, Carrae ^a   Gilbert, Gregory E ^a   Zhao, Yumin ^b   Egede, Leonard E ^a,b,c  

^a RALPH H JOHNSON VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

all cause mortality; diabetes; race; veterans

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN A1C;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; EMPLOYMENT; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MARRIAGE; MORTALITY; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; RACE DIFFERENCE; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; VETERAN;

AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; AGED; COHORT STUDIES; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; VETERANS;

EID: 77957190618     PISSN: 08848734     EISSN: 15251497     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11606-010-1405-y     Document Type: Article

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