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Diabetes mellitus type 2 in urban Ghana: characteristics and associated factors

BACKGROUND: Sub-Saharan Africa faces a rapid spread of diabetes mellitus type 2 (DM2) but its potentially specific characteristics are inadequately defined. In this hospital-based study in Kumasi, Ghana, we aimed at characterizing clinical, anthropometric, socio-economic, nutritional and behavioural...

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Autores principales:	Danquah, Ina, Bedu-Addo, George, Terpe, Karl-Johann, Micah, Frank, Amoako, Yaw A, Awuku, Yaw A, Dietz, Ekkehart, van der Giet, Markus, Spranger, Joachim, Mockenhaupt, Frank P
Formato:	Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	BioMed Central 2012
Materias:	Research Article
Acceso en línea:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3364878/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22429713 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-12-210

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