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This issue of Outlook discusses the emerging chronic disease burden in terms of likely challenges and opportunities for reproductive health, with a focus on cardiovascular conditions, diabetes, and the risk factor of obesity. This focus was identified due to clear relationships with reproductive health (e.g., hypertension and diabetes in pregnancy, contraceptive choice for women with cardiovascular conditions and risk factors). Additionally, these conditions represent large burdens of ongoing illness: an estimated 246 million people in the developing world are living with diabetes, and around 1 billion are living with hypertension.3 Finally, this focus represents less redundancy with ongoing initiatives in other areas (e.g., cancer and reproductive health,* tobacco control), and therefore, more opportunities for new thinking.

Topic: General RH | Type: Reports | Added on February 25, 2010
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