Inequalities in the prevalence of diabetes mellitus and its risk factors in Sri Lanka: a lower middle income country

• Auteurs principaux: Ambepitiyawaduge Pubudu De Silva (Auteur), Sudirikku Hennadige Padmal De Silva (Auteur), Rashan Haniffa (Auteur), Isurujith Kongala Liyanage (Auteur), Saroj Jayasinghe (Auteur), Prasad Katulanda (Auteur), Chandrika Neelakanthi Wijeratne (Auteur), Sumedha Wijeratne (Auteur), Lalini Chandika Rajapaksa (Auteur)
• Format: Livre
• Publié: BMC, 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z.
• Sujets: article
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Abstract Background Explorations into quantifying the inequalities for diabetes mellitus (DM) and its risk factors are scarce in low and lower middle income countries (LICs/LMICs). The aims of this study were to assess the inequalities of DM and its risk factors in a suburban district of Sri Lanka....