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Original Research

Ethnic Differences in the Prevalence of Type 2 Diabetes Diagnoses in the UK: Cross-Sectional Analysis of the Health Improvement Network Primary Care Database

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Pages 1081-1088 | Published online: 31 Dec 2019

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