Primary Care Diabetes
Volume 3, Issue 1 , Pages 37-42 , February 2009

Are health-related quality-of-life and self-rated health associated with mortality? Insights from Translating Research Into Action for Diabetes (TRIAD)

  • Laura N. McEwen

      Affiliations

    • Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
    • Department of Epidemiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: Internal Medicine TRIAD, P.O. Box 131337, Ann Arbor, MI 48113, United States. Tel.: +1 734 998 6978; fax: +1 734 998 7136.
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  • Catherine Kim

      Affiliations

    • Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
    • Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
    • ,
  • Mary N. Haan

      Affiliations

    • Department of Epidemiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
    • ,
  • Debashis Ghosh

      Affiliations

    • Department of Biostatistics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
    • ,
  • Paula M. Lantz

      Affiliations

    • Department of Health Management and Policy, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
    • ,
  • Theodore J. Thompson

      Affiliations

    • Division of Diabetes Translation, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, United States
    • ,
  • William H. Herman

      Affiliations

    • Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
    • Department of Epidemiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States

Received 20 August 2008 ,Revised 22 January 2009 ,Accepted 28 January 2009.

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doi: 10.1016/j.pcd.2009.01.001

Primary Care Diabetes
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