Diabetes knowledge and its relationship with achieving treatment recommendations in a national sample of people with type 2 diabetes

Diabetes Care

Volumn 35, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1556-1565

  Casagrande, Sarah Stark ^a   Burrows, Nilka Ríos ^b   Geiss, Linda S ^b   Bainbridge, Kathleen E ^c   Fradkin, Judith E ^d   Cowie, Catherine C ^d  

^a SOCIAL AND SCIENTIFIC SYSTEMS INC   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR CHRONIC DISEASE PREVENTION AND HEALTH PROMOTION   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON DEAFNESS AND OTHER COMMUNICATION DISORDERS   (United States)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DIABETES AND DIGESTIVE AND KIDNEY DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE; HEMOGLOBIN A1C; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; INSULIN; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; ORAL ANTIDIABETIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BLOOD PRESSURE REGULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES CONTROL; DIABETES EDUCATION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; GLYCEMIC CONTROL; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; PATIENT EDUCATION; RISK FACTOR; SELF REPORT; SOCIAL STATUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; BLOOD PRESSURE; CHOLESTEROL, LDL; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEMOGLOBIN A, GLYCOSYLATED; HUMANS; NUTRITION SURVEYS; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84862865597     PISSN: 01495992     EISSN: 19355548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2337/dc11-1943     Document Type: Article

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