dc.contributor.author | Kimani, Samuel | |
dc.contributor.author | Kainga, Stephen | |
dc.contributor.author | Chege, Margaret | |
dc.contributor.author | Wagoro, Miriam | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2013-02-21T13:58:41Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2012 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing | en |
dc.identifier.uri | http://erepository.uonbi.ac.ke:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/10639 | |
dc.description.abstract | Cardiovascular diseases are a major cause of mortality and morbidity worldwide. In a sub Saharan Africa cardiovascular and other metabolic diseases including diabetes are increasingly causing significant socio-economic and health burden. The increase has severely affected our health care systems already struggling with the burden of tropical and communicable diseases. Patients with diabetes are 2-4 times likely to develop cardiovascular disease and/or stroke. Although the risk factors for cardiovascular disease among type 2 diabetes may be known, there is inadequate information concerning diabetic patients attending Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH). | en |
dc.language.iso | en | en |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | Vol. 27, No.5, pp 369-3781; | |
dc.title | PCNA Annual Symposium Abstracts | en |
dc.title.alternative | Risk factors for cardiovascular disease in Patients With Type 2 diabetes | en |
dc.title.alternative | Risk factors for cardiovascular disease in patients with type 2 diabetes | en |
dc.type | Article | en |
local.embargo.terms | 6 months | en |
local.publisher | School of Nursing Sciences, University of Nairobi | en |