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Metabolic Syndrome in Native African Type-2 Diabetic Patients: PATIENTS AND METHODS
Patients Two-hundred-seventy-eight indigenous Nigerians with diabetes mellitus attended the medical out patient and inpatient units between January and August 2002 at the Usmanu Danfodiyo University Teaching Hospital (UDUTH), a major referral centre with a catchment population of about eight million. It is located in Sokoto, northwestern Nigeria (sub-Saharan Africa). The northwestern region of Nigeria is [...]