‘More and more youths ending up in hospitals’


THE number of youths being hospitalised annually for chronic diseases has doubled in just four years, says the Health Minister.

Datuk Seri Dr S. Subramaniam said an estimated one million (9.2%) Malaysians between the ages of 18 and 40 were diabetic and another 1.7 million (14.7%) in that age bracket suffered from hypertension.

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