Diabetes News – Newsletter for February 9, 2011

South Asia facing health crisis: World Bank

WASHINGTON – India and other South Asian countries are facing a health crisis with rising rates of heart disease, diabetes, obesity and other non-communicable diseases (NCDs) that can hamper development, a new World Bank report warns.

Empirical evidence is scant, but earlier projections suggested that ten years from 2005, deaths from heart disease, stroke, and …. Read the original article  : South Asia facing health crisis: World Bank.