Race/ethnic difference in diabetes and diabetic complications

Current Diabetes Reports

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 814-823

  Spanakis, Elias K ^a   Golden, Sherita Hill ^a,b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Diabetes; Diabetes complications; Disparities; Ethnic; Prediabetes; Race

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN A1C;

ARTICLE; BLOOD GLUCOSE MONITORING; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIABETIC NEPHROPATHY; DIABETIC NEUROPATHY; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; EPIDEMIC; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; GENETIC RISK; GLUCOSE METABOLISM; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH DISPARITY; HISPANIC; HUMAN; HYPERGLYCEMIA; IMPAIRED GLUCOSE TOLERANCE; INCIDENCE; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; INSULIN RESISTANCE; LEG AMPUTATION; MORTALITY; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; OBESITY; PERIPHERAL OCCLUSIVE ARTERY DISEASE; PREVALENCE; RACE DIFFERENCE; SELF MONITORING; SOCIOECONOMICS; UNITED STATES;

DIABETES COMPLICATIONS; DIABETES MELLITUS; HUMANS; PREDIABETIC STATE;

EID: 84889095029     PISSN: 15344827     EISSN: 15390829     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11892-013-0421-9     Document Type: Article

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