Complementary approaches to estimation of the global burden of diabetes

The Lancet

Volumn 379, Issue 9825, 2012, Pages 1487-1488

  Unwin, Nigel ^a   Guariguata, Leonor ^b   Whiting, David ^b   Weil, Clara ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Jamaica)

^b International Diabetes Federation   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA BASE; DIABETES MELLITUS; ECONOMIC ASPECT; HUMAN; LETTER; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 84859895777     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: 1474547X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(12)60630-8     Document Type: Letter

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