Not only a problem in the U.S., today PAHO tells us the worst epidemic in the Americas of chronic diseases such as heart disease, stroke, cancer, diabetes and respiratory diseases? is prompting a major new effort by the Pan American Health Organization to reverse these troubling trends, which stand to triple deaths from cardiovascular diseases in Latin America and the Caribbean over the next 20 years.
PAHO Urges Pan American Action to Stop Regional Epidemic of Chronic Diseases
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