Prevalence, awareness, treatment and control of diabetes among elderly persons in an urban slum of Delhi

Indian Journal of Community Medicine

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 236-239

  Singh, Arvind ^a   Mani, Kalaivani ^a   Krishnan, Anand ^a   Aggarwal, Praveen ^a   Gupta, Sanjeev ^a  

^a ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

Awareness; diabetes; elderly; older persons; slum

Indexed keywords

EID: 84870261933     PISSN: 09700218     EISSN: 19983581     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0970-0218.103472     Document Type: Article

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