Associations between disease awareness and health-related quality of life in a multi-ethnic asian population

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 11, 2014, Pages

  Venkataraman, Kavita ^a   Khoo, ChinMeng ^b   Wee, Hwee Lin ^a,c   Tan, Chuen Seng ^a   Ma, Stefan ^d   Heng, Derrick ^d   Lee, Jeannette ^a   Tai, E Shyong ^b   Thumboo, Julian ^b,c  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b Dept Medicine Endocrinol Diabet   (Singapore)

^c SINGAPORE GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

^d MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASIAN; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE COURSE; DYSLIPIDEMIA; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITY OF LIFE; SHORT FORM 36; SINGAPORE; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; AWARENESS; DYSLIPIDEMIAS; ETHNOLOGY; HEALTH SURVEY;

ADULT; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; AWARENESS; COMORBIDITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIABETES MELLITUS; DYSLIPIDEMIAS; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITY OF LIFE; SINGAPORE;

EID: 84913596322     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0113802     Document Type: Article

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