Adult Arabs have higher risk for diabetes mellitus than Jews in Israel.

Diabetes mellitus is an emerging epidemic in the Arab world. Although high diabetes prevalence is documented in Israeli Arabs, information from cohort studies is scant.This is a population study, based on information derived between 2007-2011, from the electronic database of the largest health fund...

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Main Authors: Anat Jaffe, Shmuel Giveon, Liat Wulffhart, Bernice Oberman, Maslama Baidousi, Arnona Ziv, Ofra Kalter-Leibovici
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5421762?pdf=render