Combined prevalence of impaired glucose level or diabetes and its correlates in Lusaka urban district, Zambia: A population based survey

International Archives of Medicine

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Nsakashalo Senkwe, Mutale ^a   Siziya, Seter ^b   Goma, Fastone M ^b   Songolo, Peter ^c   Mukonka, Victor ^a   Babaniyi, Olusegun ^c  

^a MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Zambia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZAMBIA   (Zambia)

^c WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE;

ADULT; AGE; ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; BORDERLINE HYPERTENSION; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; FITNESS; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HEALTH SURVEY; HIP CIRCUMFERENCE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; POPULATION BASED CASE CONTROL STUDY; PREVALENCE; URBAN AREA; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; ZAMBIA;

EID: 78651230760     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17557682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1755-7682-4-2     Document Type: Article

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