Ramadan fasting by adolescents and children with diabetes: A high-risk group examined

Tahseen Chowdhury; Abdulfattah Lakhdar

doi:10.4103/ijmbs.ijmbs_24_19

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CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 · Ibnosina Journal of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences 2019; 11(02): 45-46
DOI: 10.4103/ijmbs.ijmbs_24_19

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Ramadan fasting by adolescents and children with diabetes: A high-risk group examined

Tahseen Chowdhury

¹Department of Diabetes and Endocrinology, Barts Health NHS Trust, London, UK

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Abdulfattah Lakhdar

¹Department of Diabetes and Endocrinology, Barts Health NHS Trust, London, UK

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