Diabetes as a cause of clinically significant functional cobalamin deficiency

Diabetes Care

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1077-1080

  Solomon, Lawrence R ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CREATININE; CYANOCOBALAMIN; METHYLMALONIC ACID;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; ATAXIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMMUNITY LIVING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYANOCOBALAMIN DEFICIENCY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; NEUROPATHY; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; PARESTHESIA; VIBRATION SENSE; VITAMIN BLOOD LEVEL;

AGED; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIABETIC NEUROPATHIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; VITAMIN B 12;

EID: 79956095850     PISSN: 01495992     EISSN: 19355548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2337/dc11-0009     Document Type: Article

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