Diabetes incidence on rise in Singapore

Global Times Friday 24th February, 2012

About 11.3 percent of the people aged 18 to 69 in Singapore are living with diabetes in 2010, up from 8.2 percent in 2004, local daily the Straits Times reported on Friday. The disease is fairly widespread among those aged 70 and above. The newspaper said that one in three Singaporeans will develop the condition by the time they reach the age of 6...

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