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01.02.2010 | Letter
The economic costs of diabetes in developing countries: some concerns and recommendations
Erschienen in:
Diabetologia
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Ausgabe 2/2010
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To the Editor: We read with great interest the recently published article by Esteghamati and colleagues [
1] entitled ‘The economic costs of diabetes: a population-based study in Tehran, Iran’. The authors are to be congratulated for their admirable work in measuring the economic burden of diabetes, a disease for which the number of people affected is growing rapidly in developing countries [
2]. With reference to the article, we wish to comment on the growing burden of diabetes—especially in the context of developing countries—and then go on to make some recommendations. …