A diabetic patient measures her glucose levels. Diabetes is a condition where the body is unable to process food and sugar that enters the bloodstream properly, causing a toxic buildup in the blood. — AFP
When we think of the “deadliest diseases”, we might be inclined to imagine the ones with visually severe symptoms that grab the headlines for their rapid spread and lives lost.
On the contrary, many of the diseases that have those characteristics don’t kill as many people as we believe, not even ranking among the top 10 causes of deaths worldwide.
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