Erratum: Corrected Sentence. The Appropriateness of the Length of Insulin Needles Based on Determination of Skin and Subcutaneous Fat Thickness in the Abdomen and Upper Arm in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes

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Diabetes Metab J. 2014;38(3):244-244

Publication date (electronic) : 2014 June 17

doi : https://doi.org/10.4093/dmj.2014.38.3.244

Kang Hee Sim ¹, Moon Sook Hwang ², Sun Young Kim ¹, Hye Mi Lee ¹, Ji Yeun Chang ³, Moon Kyu Lee ⁴

¹Department of Nursing, Samsung Medical Center, Seoul, Korea.

²Department of Nursing Science, Woo Suk University, Wanju, Korea.

³Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul St. Mary's Hospital, Seoul, Korea.

⁴Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Department of Medicine, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.

Diabetes Metab J 2014;38:120-133. http://dx.doi.org/10.4093/dmj.2014.38.2.120

An error was found in the following published article: Sim KH, Hwang MS, Kim SY, Lee HM, Chang JY, Lee MK, 'The Appropriateness of the Length of Insulin Needles Based on Determination of Skin and Subcutaneous Fat Thickness in the Abdomen and Upper Arm in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes.' Diabetes Metab J 2014;38:120-133. http://dx.doi.org/10.4093/dmj.2014.38.2.120

On the page 130, in the middle of the right column, "In detail, female skin was thicker than those of males, which is consistent to many other previous studies [3,15,20]" should be corrected as following.

Corrected Sentence

In detail, men have thicker skin than do women, which is consistent to many other previous studies [3,15,20].

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