A population-based survey in 1996 and 1997 of 770 adults (aged > or = 15 years) from an urban district of Dares Salaam and 928 from a village in rural Kilimanjaro district (Tanzania) revealed that the prevalence of diabetes, impaired fasting glucose (IFG), overweight, obesity, and physical inactivit
Rural–urban differences in the prevalence of major depression and associated impairment
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- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag
- Year
- 2004
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 217 KB
- Volume
- 39
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1433-9285
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