WHO warns of growing epidemic of premature death from ‘noncommunicable diseases’

The world is facing a growing avalanche of death from heart attack, stroke, cancer, emphysema and diabetes, with many of the victims working-age people in poor countries. Up to half of those deaths could be prevented or deferred by implementing a short list of interventions, some by individual people and some by governments. But no country is doing all it could.

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Michael A. Fletcher 14 Sep, 2011

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