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Chronic diseases step out of the shadows
(China Daily)
Updated: 2009-07-01 09:40 An old Chinese sits in front of a poster calling on the whole family to fight diabetes, which will affect 60 million Chinese in 15 years' time. Sun Zhongnan For example, the number of people with diabetes in India doubled to 40 million from 1995 to 2007, Daar says. That leaves India with more people who suffer from the disease than any other country in the world, according to the International Diabetes Foundation. That number could reach 70 million by 2025, says Stig Pramming, director of Britain's Oxford Health Alliance. The new global consortium will focus on lower and middle-income countries. "There's a misconception that these are diseases of affluence," Pramming says. "But they're diseases of poverty." |
