High prevalence of diabetes and impaired glucose tolerance in India: National Urban Diabetes Survey.

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Published in Diabetologia on September 01, 2001

Authors

A Ramachandran1, C Snehalatha, A Kapur, V Vijay, V Mohan, A K Das, P V Rao, C S Yajnik, K M Prasanna Kumar, J D Nair, Diabetes Epidemiology Study Group in India (DESI)

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1: Diabetes Research Centre & M. V. Hospital for Diabetes, Royapuram, Madras, India. ramachandran@vsnl.com

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