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Prevalence of obesity in type 2 diabetes in secondary care: association with cardiovascular risk factors
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- Published on: 19 April 2006
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Dear Editor,
The finding that most patients with type 2 diabetes are either obese or overweight (1) is not surprising, but is nevertheless worrisome. Recently published data (2) show that there has been a steady increase in the prevalence of type 2 diabetes in England and Wales between 1994 and 2001. This study which evaluated a large number of individuals in several primary care centres also found that prevale...
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