The war against diabetes. How will we know if we are winning?
- 1 March 1999
- journal article
- review article
- Published by American Diabetes Association in Diabetes Care
- Vol. 22 (3) , 508-516
- https://doi.org/10.2337/diacare.22.3.508
Abstract
Diabetes affects nearly 16 million Americans and often causes severe complications and premature death. The economic cost of diabetes alone approaches $100 billion annually. We discuss the national war against diabetes and review and analyze systems for measuring progress in this war, ii framework for making use of these systems is proposed along with an answer to the question: How will we know if we are winning?.This publication has 7 references indexed in Scilit:
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