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Type 2 diabetes and health care costs in Latin America: exploring the need for greater preventive medicine

BACKGROUND: Despite advances in medicine, health systems in Latin America are not coping with the challenges of chronic diseases. Incidence of disease and the economic burdens as a consequence have both increased in recent years. We have chosen Type 2 diabetes as an example to highlight the challeng...

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Autor principal: Arredondo, Armando
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4243717/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25266304
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12916-014-0136-z