30 Year patterns of mortality in Tobago, West Indies, 1976-2005: Impact of glucose intolerance and alcohol intake

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Molokhia, Mariam ^a   Nitsch, Dorothea ^a   Patrick, Alan Leslie ^b   McKeigue, Paul ^c  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b Kavanagh Street Medical Centre ^*  (Trinidad and Tobago)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN CARIBBEAN; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; ATTRIBUTABLE RISK; BODY MASS; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CAUSE OF DEATH; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GLUCOSE INTOLERANCE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; SEX DIFFERENCE; TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO; AGE; AGED; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK FACTOR;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALCOHOL DRINKING; CAUSE OF DEATH; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; GLUCOSE INTOLERANCE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79551514297     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0014588     Document Type: Article

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