Copenhagen Consensus: Ideas for reducing cancer and heart disease
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Chronic diseases such as heart disease, stroke, and cancer are problems that we associate with rich countries, while infectious diseases such as malaria and HIV/AIDS are more commonly seen as the problems afflicting the poor. But 80 percent of global deaths from chronic diseases occur in low-income and middle-income countries. Cardiovascular disease in lowand middle-income countries killed more than twice as many people in 2001 as did AIDS, malaria, and TB combined.
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