Primary Care Diabetes
Volume 1, Issue 1 , Pages 13-16 , February 2007

High prevalence of diabetes among immigrants from non-European countries in Sweden

Received 10 March 2006 ,Revised 19 May 2006 ,Accepted 14 June 2006.

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doi: 10.1016/j.pcd.2006.06.001

Primary Care Diabetes
Volume 1, Issue 1 , Pages 13-16 , February 2007

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