Primary Care Diabetes
Volume 1, Issue 2 , Pages 81-86 , June 2007

Poor control and management of cardiovascular risk factors among Albanian diabetic adult patients

  • F. Toti

      Affiliations

    • Service of Endocrinology & Metabolic Diseases, University Hospital Centre “Mother Theresa”, 370, Rrugae Dibres, Tirana, Albania
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +355 4 249499; fax: +355 4 249489.
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  • G. Bejtja

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Public Health, Tirana, Albania
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  • K. Hoti

      Affiliations

    • Service of Nephrology & Dialysis, University Hospital Centre “Mother Theresa”, Tirana, Albania
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  • E. Shota

      Affiliations

    • Service of Cardiology, University Hospital Centre “Mother Theresa”, Tirana, Albania
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  • F. Agaçi

      Affiliations

    • Service of Endocrinology & Metabolic Diseases, University Hospital Centre “Mother Theresa”, 370, Rrugae Dibres, Tirana, Albania

Received 25 March 2007 ,Accepted 13 April 2007.

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☆ Part of this study has been accepted as poster presentation in 2nd International Congress on “Prediabetes” and the Metabolic Syndrome in Barcelona, 25–28 April 2007.

PII: S1751-9918(07)00045-9

doi: 10.1016/j.pcd.2007.04.009

Primary Care Diabetes
Volume 1, Issue 2 , Pages 81-86 , June 2007

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