The association between the number of prescription medications and incident falls in a multi-ethnic population of adult type-2 diabetes patients: the diabetes and aging study.

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Published in J Gen Intern Med on December 05, 2009

Authors

Elbert S Huang1, Andrew J Karter, Kirstie K Danielson, E Margaret Warton, Ameena T Ahmed

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA. ehuang@medicine.bsd.uchicago.edu

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