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China Tops India on World Diabetes Ladder as Boom Spurs Obesity
March 24, 2010, 10:28 PM EDT
By Jason Gale
March 25 (Bloomberg) -- China has overtaken India as the global epicenter of the diabetes epidemic after a study showed twice as many Chinese are afflicted with the disease as previously estimated.
Type-2 diabetes, mostly caused by a high-calorie diet and sedentary lifestyle, afflicts 92.4 million adults in China, a study published yesterday in the New England Journal of Medicine found. Earlier surveys calculated 43.2 million diabetics in the country, fewer than the 50.8 million that the Brussels-based International Diabetes Federation estimates are in India.
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China Tops India on World Diabetes Ladder as Boom Spurs Obesity
March 24, 2010, 10:28 PM EDT
By Jason Gale
March 25 (Bloomberg) -- China has overtaken India as the global epicenter of the diabetes epidemic after a study showed twice as many Chinese are afflicted with the disease as previously estimated.
Type-2 diabetes, mostly caused by a high-calorie diet and sedentary lifestyle, afflicts 92.4 million adults in China, a study published yesterday in the New England Journal of Medicine found. Earlier surveys calculated 43.2 million diabetics in the country, fewer than the 50.8 million that the Brussels-based International Diabetes Federation estimates are in India.
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