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Article: Research from Harvard University in the area of type 2 diabetes described.
- Article from:
- Heart Disease Weekly
- Article date:
- November 15, 2009
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"Economic analysis of observational cohort data. Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, a not-for-profit integrated health care delivery system. 613 patients with type 2 diabetes. Changes in inflation-adjusted annual health care spending and in health status between 1997 and 2005 (with health status defined as 10-year cardiovascular risk), holding age and diabetes duration constant across the ...