National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (U.S.)

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Name (Latin)
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (U.S.)
Other forms of name
Instituto Nacional de la Diabetes y las Enfermedades Digestivas y del Riñon (U.S.)
N.I.D.D.K. (National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (U.S.))
NIDDK (National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (U.S.))
National Institute of Diabetes & Digestive & Kidney Diseases (U.S.)
National Institute of Diabetes, Digestive, and Kidney Diseases (U.S.)
National Institutes of Health (U.S.). National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
United States. National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
Associated country
United States
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

VIAF: 168466599
Wikidata: Q29220409
Library of congress: n 86040533
Sources of Information
  • NIDDK suggestions to National ... 1986:t.p. (National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Md. ; NIDDK)
  • Phone call to National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, 11/7/86(National Institute of Arthritis, Diabetes, and Digestive and Kidney Diseases changed name to National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases)
  • Its Annual report of the director, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, 6th (1986):t.p. (National Institute of Diabetes & Digestive & Kidney Diseases)
  • Mineral homeostasis in the elderly, c1989:t.p. (National Institute of Diabetes, Digestive, and Kidney Diseases)
  • Phone call to Institute, 02-15-90(the word "and" was inadvertently omitted from National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases form on t.p. of its publication)
  • Control de la vejiga en las mujeres, 1999:p. 24 (Instituto Nacional de la Diabetes y las Enfermedades Digestivas y del Riñon, parte de los Institutos Nacionales de Salud; Bethesda, MD)

Wikipedia description:

The National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) is part of the United States National Institutes of Health, which in turn is part of the Department of Health and Human Services. NIDDK is approximately the fifth-largest of the 27 NIH institutes. The institute's mission is to support research, training, and communication with the public in the topic areas of "diabetes and other endocrine and metabolic diseases; digestive diseases, nutritional disorders, and obesity; and kidney, urologic, and hematologic diseases". As of 2021, the Director of the institute is Griffin P. Rodgers, who assumed the position on an acting basis in 2006 and on a permanent basis in 2007.

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