Primary Care Diabetes
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Networks offer new opportunities for diabetes research

  • Eleanor D. Kennedy

      Affiliations

    • Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism and the Oxford Biomedical Research Centre (NIHR), Old Road, Headington, Oxford OX3 7LJ, United Kingdom
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +44 01865 857508; fax: +44 01865 857509.
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  • Paul Chester

      Affiliations

    • Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism and the Oxford Biomedical Research Centre (NIHR), Old Road, Headington, Oxford OX3 7LJ, United Kingdom
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  • Azeem Majeed

      Affiliations

    • Diabetes Research Network Co-ordinating Centre, ICCH Building, Imperial College, London W2 1LA, United Kingdom
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  • Paul Wallace

      Affiliations

    • Primary Care Research Network, 43 Whitfield Street, London W1T 4HD, United Kingdom
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  • David R. Matthews

      Affiliations

    • Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism and the Oxford Biomedical Research Centre (NIHR), Old Road, Headington, Oxford OX3 7LJ, United Kingdom

Received 1 September 2009 ,Accepted 15 October 2009.

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PII: S1751-9918(09)00117-X

doi: 10.1016/j.pcd.2009.10.002

Primary Care Diabetes
Volume 4, Issue 1 , Pages 3-8 , April 2010