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Chronic age-related diseases share risk factors: do they share pathophysiological mechanisms and why does that matter?
Swiss medical weekly - 1 Jan 2010
Probst-Hensch N M
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The World Health Organization (WHO) assigns high priority to the prevention of non-communicable age-related diseases such as heart disease, cancer, diabetes, stroke and chronic lower respiratory diseases. They are now the leading causes of death, in both industrialised and developing countries, mostly due to increased life expectancy and urbanisation with associated changes in lifestyle and environment. Tobacco...
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