Diabetic patients' knowledge of therapeutic goals in Kuwait

Medical Principles and Practice

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 118-123

  Awad, Abdelmoneim ^a   Dalle, Hala ^a   Enlund, Hannes ^a  

^a KUWAIT UNIVERSITY   (Kuwait)

Author keywords

Diabetes; Kuwait; Patients' knowledge; Therapeutic goals

Indexed keywords

GLYCOSYLATED HEMOGLOBIN; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; DIABETIC PATIENT; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; INSULIN TREATMENT; KUWAIT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; PATIENT EDUCATION; QUESTIONNAIRE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

ADULT; AGED; CHOLESTEROL, LDL; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 1; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH POLICY; HEALTH SURVEYS; HEMOGLOBIN A, GLYCOSYLATED; HUMANS; KUWAIT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; QUESTIONNAIRES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79251524242     PISSN: 10117571     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000321198     Document Type: Article

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