Estimating the prevalence of diabetes mellitus and thyroid disorders using medication data in Flanders, Belgium.

Background: Various methods exist to estimate disease prevalences. The aim of this study was to determine whether dispensed, self-reported and prescribed medication data could be used to estimate the prevalence of diabetes mellitus and thyroid disorders. Second, these pharmaco-epidemiological estima...

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Publicado en:	European Journal of Public Health Vol. 28; no. 1; pp. 193 - 199
Autores principales:	Vaes, Bert, Ruelens, Catherine, Saikali, Samuel, Smets, Alexander, Henrard, Séverine, Renard, Francoise, den Akker, Marjan van, Van Pottelbergh, Gijs, Goderis, Geert, Van der Heyden, Johan
Formato:	research tables/charts Journal Article
Publicado:	Oxford University Press / USA Feb2018
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