#BTEditorial – The weighty issue of NCDs - by Barbados Today
March 5, 2020
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March 5, 2020
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Barbados Today
March 5, 2020
On this World Obesity Day, Barbados finds itself on the wrong side of the scale. And the figures are sobering. According to Chairman of the Barbados Drug Formulary Committee Dr Kenneth Connell, eight out of ten deaths are due to non-communicable diseases (NCDs): diabetes, cancer, heart disease, stroke – and 16 per cent of which
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