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Whether to report diabetes as the underlying cause-of-death? a survey of internists of different sub-specialties

BACKGROUND: Cause-specific mortality is a commonly used endpoint of clinical trials or prospective studies. However, it is sometimes difficult for physician to determine the underlying-cause-of-death (UCD), especially for diabetic patients coexisted with cardiovascular diseases (CVD). The aim of thi...

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Autores principales: Lu, Tsung-Hsueh, Kwok, Ching-Fai, Ho, Low-Tone
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2912904/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20653939
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6823-10-13