Addressing Asia’s fast growing diabetes epidemic

World diabetes day; 2013

*Corresponding Author: Prof. Hajieh Shahbazian, Diabetes Research Center, Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz, Iran. E-mail: [email protected] Implication for health policy/practice/research/medical education: World diabetes day was introduced by the international diabetes federation (IDF) and WHO in 1991, in response to increasing prevalence of diabetes around the wo...

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