Drug costs in prediabetes and undetected diabetes compared with diagnosed diabetes and normal glucose tolerance: Results from the population-based KORA survey in Germany

Diabetes Care

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Icks, Andrea ^a   Claessen, Heiner ^a   Strassburger, Klaus ^a   Tepel, Michael ^a   Waldeyer, Regina ^a   Chernyak, Nadja ^a   Albers, Bernd ^a   Baechle, Christina ^a   Rathmann, Wolfgang ^a   Meisinger, Christa ^b   Thorand, Barbara ^b   Hunger, Matthias ^b   Schunk, Michaela ^b   Stark, Renée ^b   Rückert, Ina Maria ^b   Peters, Annette ^b   Huth, Cornelia ^b   Stöckl, Doris ^b   Giani, Guido ^a   Holle, Rolf ^b  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARDIOVASCULAR AGENT; GLUCOSE;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; BODY MASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DRUG COST; FEMALE; GERMANY; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; GLUCOSE TOLERANCE; HUMAN; IMPAIRED GLUCOSE TOLERANCE; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POPULATION RESEARCH; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL STATUS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DIABETES MELLITUS; DRUG COSTS; FEMALE; GLUCOSE INTOLERANCE; GLUCOSE TOLERANCE TEST; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDIABETIC STATE;

EID: 84875437995     PISSN: 01495992     EISSN: 19355548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2337/dc12-0997     Document Type: Letter

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