Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice
Volume 70, Issue 2 , Pages 159-165 , November 2005

Economic burden on families of childhood type 1 diabetes in urban Sudan

  • Hind Elrayah

      Affiliations

    • Division of International Health Care Research, Department of Public Health Sciences, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
    • ,
  • Mohamed Eltom

      Affiliations

    • School of Medicine, Ahfad University, Khartoum, Sudan
    • National Diabetes Program, Federal Ministry of Health, Khartoum, Sudan
    • ,
  • Ashraf Bedri

      Affiliations

    • School of Medicine, Ahfad University, Khartoum, Sudan
    • ,
  • Abdelrahim Belal

      Affiliations

    • National Diabetes Program, Federal Ministry of Health, Khartoum, Sudan
    • ,
  • Hans Rosling

      Affiliations

    • Division of International Health Care Research, Department of Public Health Sciences, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
    • ,
  • Claes-Göran Östenson

      Affiliations

    • Diabetes Prevention Unit, Department of Molecular Medicine, Endocrine and Diabetes Unit, Karolinska University Hospital, SE-171 76 Stockholm, Sweden
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +46 8 51776200; fax: +46 8 51776280.

Received 13 October 2004 ,Revised 17 February 2005 ,Accepted 14 March 2005.

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doi: 10.1016/j.diabres.2005.03.034

Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice
Volume 70, Issue 2 , Pages 159-165 , November 2005

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