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- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
Health authorities in the Marshall Islands are warning the entire population could develop diabetes.
Nine out of every ten hospital admissions are diabetes-related in the Marshalls, and experts are warning the disease is threatening the islands' younger population.
Robert Revercomb from the Diabetes Wellness Centre in Majuro says solid data about the disease amongst young Marshallese is not known, but it's widespread amongst the adult population
http://www.radioaustralianews.net.au/stories/201202/3429582.htm?desktop
Nine out of every ten hospital admissions are diabetes-related in the Marshalls, and experts are warning the disease is threatening the islands' younger population.
Robert Revercomb from the Diabetes Wellness Centre in Majuro says solid data about the disease amongst young Marshallese is not known, but it's widespread amongst the adult population
http://www.radioaustralianews.net.au/stories/201202/3429582.htm?desktop