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Level of diabetes knowledge among adult patients with diabetes using diabetes knowledge test

Asim M. Zowgar, Muhammad I. Siddiqui and Khalid M. Alattas
Saudi Medical Journal February 2018, 39 (2) 161-168; DOI: https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2017.2.21343
Asim M. Zowgar
From the Department of Community Medicine (Zowgar, Siddiqui, Alattas), Faculty of Medicine, Umm Al-Qura University, Makkah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
MBBS
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Muhammad I. Siddiqui
From the Department of Community Medicine (Zowgar, Siddiqui, Alattas), Faculty of Medicine, Umm Al-Qura University, Makkah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
FCPS, MPhil
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Khalid M. Alattas
From the Department of Community Medicine (Zowgar, Siddiqui, Alattas), Faculty of Medicine, Umm Al-Qura University, Makkah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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vol. 39 no. 2 161-168
DOI 
https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2017.2.21343
PubMed 
29436565

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Saudi Medical Journal
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1658-3175
History 
  • Received October 12, 2017
  • Accepted December 19, 2017
  • Published online February 1, 2018.

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  1. Asim M. Zowgar, MBBS⇑,
  2. Muhammad I. Siddiqui, FCPS, MPhil and
  3. Khalid M. Alattas, Medical student
  1. From the Department of Community Medicine (Zowgar, Siddiqui, Alattas), Faculty of Medicine, Umm Al-Qura University, Makkah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
  1. Address correspondence and reprint request to: Dr. Asim M. Zowgar, Department of Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Umm Al-Qura University, Makkah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. E-mail: amz-md{at}outlook.com ORCID ID: orcid.org/0000-0002-8416-0989
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