Canada: Recent Epidemiologic Trends Of Diabetes Mellitus Among Status Aboriginal Adults

Canada: Recent Epidemiologic Trends Of Diabetes Mellitus Among Status Aboriginal Adults Richard T. Oster, Jeffrey A. Johnson, Brenda R. Hemmelgarn, Malcolm King, Stephanie U. Balko, Lawrence W. Svenson, Lindsay Crowshoe, and Ellen L. Toth, 2011   Background: Little is known about longitudinal trends in diabetes mellitus among Aboriginal people in Canada. We compared the incidence and prevalence of diabetes, and its impact on mortality, among status Aboriginal adults and adults in the...

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