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Prevalence and risk factors for diabetes and diabetic retinopathy: results from the Nigeria national blindness and visual impairment survey
BACKGROUND: In Nigeria, urbanisation and increasing life expectancy are likely to increase the incidence of non-communicable diseases. As the epidemic of diabetes matures, visual loss from diabetic retinopathy (DR) will increase unless mechanisms for early detection and treatment improve, and health...
Autores principales: | Kyari, Fatima, Tafida, Abubakar, Sivasubramaniam, Selvaraj, Murthy, Gudlavalleti VS, Peto, Tunde, Gilbert, Clare E |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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BioMed Central
2014
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4301086/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25523434 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-14-1299 |
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