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New cancer study findings have been published by scientists at University of Oxford
Published in Obesity and Diabetes Week, May 11th, 2009
"While most of the global burden from chronic diseases, and especially vascular diseases, is now borne by low and middle-income countries, few large-scale epidemiological studies of chronic diseases in such countries have been performed. From 1998-2004, 52 584 men and 106 962 women aged >= 35 years were visited in their homes in Mexico City," scientists writing in the journal BMC Public Health report.
"Self reported diagnoses of chronic diseases and major disease risk factors were ascertained and physical measurements taken. Age-and sex-specific prevalences and means were analysed. After about age 50 years, diabetes was extremely common-for example, 23.8% of...
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