Diabetes: Scientist attributes increase to urbanisation, aging population

A Medical Imaging Scientist, Dr Livinus Abonyi, says the increasing incidence of Diabetes Mellitus (DM) in the country may be as a result of urbanisation and aging of the population. Abonyi, also the Head, Department of Radiography, University of Lagos, made this known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Tuesday […]


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