Canadian potential healthcare and societal cost savings from consumption of pulses: A cost-of-illness analysis

Nutrients

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2017, Pages

  Abdullah, Mohammad M H ^a,b   Marinangeli, Christopher P F ^c   Jones, Peter J H ^a   Carlberg, Jared G ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^b KUWAIT UNIVERSITY   (Kuwait)

^c Pulse Canada   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cardiovascular disease; Diabetes; Dietary pulses; Healthcare cost savings; Nutrition economics

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANADIAN; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST OF ILLNESS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIETARY INTAKE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HOSPITAL CARE; HOSPITALIZATION COST; HUMAN; MORBIDITY; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; ADMINISTRATION AND DOSAGE; ADOLESCENT; BLOOD; CANADA; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; COST CONTROL; DIET; DIETARY FIBER; ECONOMICS; FABACEAE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; GLYCEMIC INDEX; INCIDENCE; LENTIL; MALE; METABOLISM; NUTRITIONAL VALUE; PEA; SOCIOECONOMICS;

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CHOLESTEROL; GLYCOSYLATED HEMOGLOBIN; TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

ADOLESCENT; BIOMARKERS; BLOOD GLUCOSE; CANADA; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CHOLESTEROL; COST OF ILLNESS; COST SAVINGS; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; DIET; DIETARY FIBER; FABACEAE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GLYCATED HEMOGLOBIN A; GLYCEMIC INDEX; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LENS PLANT; MALE; NUTRITIVE VALUE; PEAS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TRIGLYCERIDES;

EID: 85026419252     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20726643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/nu9070793     Document Type: Article

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