Popular glucose tracking apps and use of mhealth by latinos with diabetes: Review

JMIR mHealth and uHealth

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2015, Pages

  Williams, John Patrick ^a   Schroeder, Dirk ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Diabetes mellitus; Hispanic; Mobile applications; Mobile health; Systematic review

Indexed keywords

EID: 84994473108     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22915222     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2196/mhealth.3986     Document Type: Review

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