Primary Care Diabetes
Volume 3, Issue 4 , Pages 249-252 , November 2009

Failure to control risk factors among patients with type 2 diabetes; experience from a Greek cohort

  • Anastasios Kollias

      Affiliations

    • Third University Department of Internal Medicine, Sotiria Hospital, Athens, Greece
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: Third University Department of Internal Medicine, Sotiria Hospital, 152 Mesogion Avenue, 11527 Athens, Greece. Tel.: +30 210 7763332; fax: +30 210 7719981.
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  • Ioannis A. Bliziotis

      Affiliations

    • Third University Department of Internal Medicine, Sotiria Hospital, Athens, Greece
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  • Apostolos Xilomenos

      Affiliations

    • Second Department of Internal Medicine, Gennimatas Hospital, Athens, Greece
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  • Apostolos Tolis

      Affiliations

    • Second Department of Internal Medicine, Gennimatas Hospital, Athens, Greece

Received 5 June 2009 ,Revised 25 July 2009 ,Accepted 2 August 2009.

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doi: 10.1016/j.pcd.2009.08.001

Primary Care Diabetes
Volume 3, Issue 4 , Pages 249-252 , November 2009

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