Time to recovery in diabetes and comorbidities following Hurricane Katrina

Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness

Volumn 4, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2010, Pages

  Thethi, Tina K ^a   Yau, C Lillian ^b   Shi, Lizheng ^b   Leger, Sharice ^a   Nagireddy, Prathima ^a   Waddadar, Jay ^a   Surampudi, Prasanth ^a   John Kalarickal, Jennifer ^a   Yenoby, Lydia ^a   Fonseca, Vivian ^a  

^a TULANE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

^b TULANE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Diabetes; Disaster; Hurricane Katrina; Recovery

Indexed keywords

GLYCOSYLATED HEMOGLOBIN; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD; BLOOD PRESSURE; COMORBIDITY; DISASTER; FEMALE; HUMAN; HURRICANE; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; SELF CARE; UNITED STATES;

AGED; BLOOD PRESSURE; CHOLESTEROL, LDL; COMORBIDITY; CYCLONIC STORMS; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 1; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; DISASTERS; FEMALE; HEMOGLOBIN A, GLYCOSYLATED; HUMANS; LIPOPROTEINS, HDL; LOUISIANA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEW ORLEANS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); SELF CARE; TRIGLYCERIDES;

EID: 84865625840     PISSN: 19357893     EISSN: 1938744X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/dmp.2010.10     Document Type: Article

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