Obesity And Diabetes Emerging Major Health Care Challenges In The Eastern Mediterranean Region

According to the World Health Organization’s Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean (WHO EMRO), obesity poses an emerging global health care problem and is considered a major risk factor in the development of diabetes and cardiovascular disease. Presently more than 16 million people are living with diabetes in the Eastern Mediterranean Region. A staggering number which is expected to rise to almost 43 million by the year 2025. Today, more than 1. [click link for full article]

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Filed under: Diabetes on November 5th, 2007