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Glucose intolerance and associated factors in the multi-ethnic population of the United Arab Emirates: results of a national surveyM Malik
Ministry of Health, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Diabetes Res Clin Pract 69:188-95. 2005..To determine the prevalence of diabetes and impaired fasting glycaemia (IFG) and associated conditions such as obesity and hypertension, in the multi-ethnic, adult population of the United Arab Emirates in 1999-2000...
Global burden of diabetes, 1995-2025: prevalence, numerical estimates, and projectionsH King
Division of Noncommunicable Diseases, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
Diabetes Care 21:1414-31. 1998..e., the years 1995, 2000, and 2025, and to calculate additional parameters, such as sex ratio, urban-rural ratio, and the age structure of the diabetic population...
Epidemiology of glucose intolerance and associated factors in Uzbekistan: a survey in Sirdaria provinceH King
Division of Noncommunicable Diseases DIAB, World Health Organization, 1211 27, Geneva, Switzerland
Diabetes Res Clin Pract 55:19-27. 2002..85 or above for women and 0.95 or above for men). Of these, one-third had coexisting glucose intolerance. It is concluded that glucose intolerance and central obesity are common in this rural Central Asian community...
Diabetes in adults is now a Third World problem. The WHO Ad Hoc Diabetes Reporting GroupH King
Diabetes and Other Noncommunicable Diseases Unit, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
Bull World Health Organ 69:643-8. 1991..3) It is the populations in developing countries, and the minority or disadvantaged communities in the industrialized countries who now face the greatest risk.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)..
Impact of poverty on the prevalence of diabetes and its complications in urban southern IndiaA Ramachandran
Diabetes Research Centre and M V Hospital for Diabetes, Royapuram, Chennai, India
Diabet Med 19:130-5. 2002..The impact of poverty on the profile of diabetes and its complications was studied...
Glucose intolerance and associated factors in Mongolia: results of a national surveyJ Suvd
Department of Endocrinology, National Medical University of Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
Diabet Med 19:502-8. 2002....
BMI compared with central obesity indicators in relation to diabetes and hypertension in AsiansR Nyamdorj
Obesity (Silver Spring) 16:1622-35. 2008..760 (0.766) than WHR 0.748 (0.751), but their 95% CIs were all overlapped. DISCUSSION: WSR was stronger than BMI in association with diabetes, but these indicators were equally strongly associated with hypertension in Asians...
