Glycemic control and health disparities in older ethnically diverse underserved adults with diabetes: Five-year results from the Informatics for Diabetes Education and Telemedicine (IDEATel) study

Diabetes Care

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 274-279

  Weinstock, Ruth S ^a,b   Teresi, Jeanne A ^c,d,e   Goland, Robin ^d   Izquierdo, Roberto ^a   Palmas, Walter ^d   Eimicke, Joseph P ^c   Ebner, Susana ^d   Shea, Steven ^d  

^a SUNY UPSTATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SYRACUSE VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c Research Division   (United States)

^d Howard Hughes Medical Institute   (United States)

^e NEW YORK STATE PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE; HEMOGLOBIN A1C;

AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD GLUCOSE MONITORING; BODY MASS; DIABETES EDUCATION; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; GLYCEMIC CONTROL; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HISPANIC; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICALLY UNDERSERVED; MEDICARE; RACE DIFFERENCE; SEX DIFFERENCE; TELEMEDICINE;

AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; AGED; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HEMOGLOBIN A, GLYCOSYLATED; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; HYPERGLYCEMIA; MALE; MEDICARE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; PREVALENCE; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; TELEMEDICINE; UNITED STATES; VIDEOTAPE RECORDING;

EID: 79951709423     PISSN: 01495992     EISSN: 19355548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2337/dc10-1346     Document Type: Article

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