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In Bolivia, eating habits and sedentariness alarm, and cause incidence in the increase of some diseases such as diabetes and hypertension.


Up to the year 2020 the number of patients with obesity and diabetes in the country will reach 180 thousand people; The double of the ones that exist today, alert the Ministry of Health based on the statistics of the last years, in which this disease was propagated at unimaginable velocities, rising from 64,136 cases in 2010 to 89,916 in 2015.


The Ministry reports that 90% of Bolivian diabetic patients are type two and older than 35 years, males and females indistinctly.


Santa Cruz is the department with the highest incidence of the disease with 35,300 cases; Followed by La Paz, with 15,495, and Cochabamba, with 13,453.

In Bolivia, eating habits and sedentariness alarm, and cause incidence in the increase of some diseases such as diabetes and hypertension. Up to the year 2020 the number of patients with obesity and diabetes in the country will reach 180 thousand people; The double of the ones that exist today, alert the Ministry of Health based on the statistics of the last years, in which this disease was propagated at unimaginable velocities, rising from 64,136 cases in 2010 to 89,916 in 2015. The Ministry reports that 90% of Bolivian diabetic patients are type two and older than 35 years, males and females indistinctly. Santa Cruz is the department with the highest incidence of the disease with 35,300 cases; Followed by La Paz, with 15,495, and Cochabamba, with 13,453.

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