A low socio-economic status is an additional risk factor for glucose intolerance in high risk Hong Kong Chinese
- 1 January 2001
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in European Journal of Epidemiology
- Vol. 17 (3) , 289-295
- https://doi.org/10.1023/a:1017935707807
Abstract
To examine whether a low socio-economic status (SES) is an additional risk factor for glucose intolerance in Hong Kong Chinese with known risk factors for glucose intolerance, a total of 2847 Chinese...Keywords
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