Problems experienced in a diabetic clinic for Blacks

Mokhobo, K.P.

South African Medical Journal 52(20): 791

1977


ISSN/ISBN: 0256-9574
PMID: 607490
Document Number: 114376
Among 170 Africans attending diabetic clinic there was a lower incidence of hypertriglyceridaemia and hypercholesterolaemia than among white diabetics in Johannesburg. There was inadequate health education for African diabetics and reliance on oral hypoglycaemics rather than diet treatment. Health educators of the patient's own race are needed.

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