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Diabetic retinopathy in sub-Saharan Africa: meeting the challenges of an emerging epidemic

BACKGROUND: Sub-Saharan Africa faces an epidemic of diabetes. Diabetes causes significant morbidity including visual loss from diabetic retinopathy, which is largely preventable. In this resource-poor setting, health systems are poorly organized to deliver chronic care with multiple system involveme...

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Autores principales: Burgess, Philip I, Msukwa, Gerald, Beare, Nicholas AV
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3729714/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23819888
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1741-7015-11-157