Is the frequency of ketoacidosis at onset of type 1 diabetes a child health indicator that is related to income inequality?

Diabetes Care

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Limenis, Elizaveta ^a   Shulman, Rayzel ^a   Daneman, Denis ^a  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN A1C; INSULIN;

CHILD; CHILD HEALTH; DIABETIC KETOACIDOSIS; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; INCOME; INCOME INEQUALITY; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; LETTER; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL STATUS; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW (TOPIC);

CHILD; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 1; DIABETIC KETOACIDOSIS; HUMANS; INCOME; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 84859039220     PISSN: 01495992     EISSN: 19355548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2337/dc11-1980     Document Type: Letter

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