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Low health literacy is associated with higher risk of type 2 diabetes: a cross-sectional study in Germany

BACKGROUND: Low health literacy is believed to be associated with behaviours that increase the risk of type 2 diabetes. But there is limited knowledge on the relation between health literacy (HL) and diabetes risk, and whether improving HL could be a potential prevention strategy. Therefore, the mai...

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Autores principales: Tajdar, Daniel, Lühmann, Dagmar, Fertmann, Regina, Steinberg, Tim, van den Bussche, Hendrik, Scherer, Martin, Schäfer, Ingmar
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7962353/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33726714
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-021-10508-2