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Using the epidemiology of diabetes, the paper will critically examine important issues focused on the prevalence of the disease, mortality, life expectancy of individuals with diabetes and several other issues relating to the disease.... The paper will summarize the entities of diabetes, review the background information concerning the disease, review the major epidemiologic findings, identify areas of further epidemiologic research and summarize the findings....
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