Hypoglycemia is more common among type 2 diabetes patients with limited health literacy: the Diabetes Study of Northern California (DISTANCE).

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Published in J Gen Intern Med on May 18, 2010

Authors

Urmimala Sarkar1, Andrew J Karter, Jennifer Y Liu, Howard H Moffet, Nancy E Adler, Dean Schillinger

Author Affiliations

1: UCSF Center for Vulnerable Populations, San Francisco General Hospital, San Francisco, CA, USA. usarkar@medsfgh.ucsf.edu

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