Northerner
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- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
In 30 years, the Chinese people have gone from having barely enough to eat to worrying about spreading waistlines, leaving the healthcare system struggling to keep up with an exponential rise in "nobleman diseases" like diabetes.
The soaring cost of chronic disease could tax China's effort to offer basic healthcare to 1.4 billion people. Almost one out of every eight Chinese households was racked by catastrophic health expenses in 2011, according to a paper published in medical journal The Lancet.
http://uk.reuters.com/article/2012/03/25/us-china-diabetes-idUKBRE82O04E20120325
The soaring cost of chronic disease could tax China's effort to offer basic healthcare to 1.4 billion people. Almost one out of every eight Chinese households was racked by catastrophic health expenses in 2011, according to a paper published in medical journal The Lancet.
http://uk.reuters.com/article/2012/03/25/us-china-diabetes-idUKBRE82O04E20120325