Primary Care Diabetes
Volume 3, Issue 4 , Pages 239-244 , November 2009

Perceptions of heart attack risk amongst individuals with diabetes

  • Hermione C. Price

      Affiliations

    • Diabetes Trials Unit, OCDEM, Churchill Hospital, Old Road, Headington, Oxford OX3 7LJ, United Kingdom
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +44 01865 857255; fax: +44 01865 857241.
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  • Christina Dudley

      Affiliations

    • Diabetes Trials Unit, OCDEM, Churchill Hospital, Old Road, Headington, Oxford OX3 7LJ, United Kingdom
    • The NIHR Oxford Biomedical Research Centre, United Kingdom
    • ,
  • Beryl Barrow

      Affiliations

    • Diabetes Trials Unit, OCDEM, Churchill Hospital, Old Road, Headington, Oxford OX3 7LJ, United Kingdom
    • The NIHR Oxford Biomedical Research Centre, United Kingdom
    • ,
  • Simon J. Griffin

      Affiliations

    • MRC Epidemiology Unit, Cambridge, United Kingdom
    • ,
  • Rury R. Holman

      Affiliations

    • Diabetes Trials Unit, OCDEM, Churchill Hospital, Old Road, Headington, Oxford OX3 7LJ, United Kingdom

Received 10 July 2009 ,Revised 1 September 2009 ,Accepted 30 September 2009.

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doi: 10.1016/j.pcd.2009.09.005

Primary Care Diabetes
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