Do persons that changed health insurance differ from those who did not? the case of diabetes

Experimental and Clinical Endocrinology and Diabetes

Volumn 119, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 569-572

  Hoffmann, F ^a   Icks, A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^b HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

cross sectional studies; diabetes mellitus; epidemiology; health insurance companies

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; GERMANY; HEALTH INSURANCE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK; SEX;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIABETIC ANGIOPATHIES; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; GERMANY; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; INSURANCE, HEALTH; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80054761328     PISSN: 09477349     EISSN: 14393646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0031-1275277     Document Type: Article

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