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The Andean Latin-American burden of diabetes attributable to high body mass index: A comparative risk assessment

BACKGROUND: Body mass index (BMI) has increased in Latin-America, but the implications for the diabetes burden have not been quantified. We estimated the proportion and absolute number of diabetes cases attributable to high BMI in Bolivia, Ecuador and Peru (Andean Latin-America), with estimation of...

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Autores principales: Carrillo-Larco, Rodrigo M., Pearson-Stuttard, Jonathan, Bernabe-Ortiz, Antonio, Gregg, Edward W.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier Scientific Publishers 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7042885/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31838121
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.diabres.2019.107978