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                    [Title] => NAFLD is lion’s share of liver diseases
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Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease may soon become the most important cause of chronic liver disease in the United States, “with a substantial clinical and economic impact.”

[DatePublished] => 2013-08-04 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 136231 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1805110 [AuthorName] => Charles C. Chante MD [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 946370 [Title] => Diabetes expected in up to 1/3 of Americans by 2050 [Summary] =>

Over the past 40 years, the total prevalence of diabetes in the United States is expected to increase from its current level of about 1 in 10 adults to as many as 1 in 3 by 2050.

[DatePublished] => 2013-05-26 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 136231 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1805110 [AuthorName] => Charles C. Chante MD [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 914072 [Title] => EDITORIAL - A common ailment [Summary] =>

You see them in impoverished communities, or begging for alms in the streets of Manila: children with bloated bellies, emaciated by malnutrition, their growth stunted.

[DatePublished] => 2013-02-28 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => http://imageshack.us/a/img199/5346/startoonewthumb.gif ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 889088 [Title] => Diabetes in US: 27% go undiagnosed [Summary] =>

The number of people in the United States with diabetes has risen to nearly 26 million, while another 79 million have prediabetes, according to data released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

[DatePublished] => 2012-12-23 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 136231 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1805110 [AuthorName] => Charles C. Chante MD [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 598302 [Title] => US prevalence of diabetes and prediabetes reaches new high [Summary] =>

More than 40 percent of American adults aged 20 years and older have hyperglycemic conditions, according to review of data from the 2005-2006 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey.

[DatePublished] => 2010-08-01 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 136231 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1805110 [AuthorName] => Charles C. Chante MD [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 359175 [Title] => ‘TB prevalence declining, but...’ [Summary] => The prevalence of tuberculosis in the Western Pacific is declining annually by three percent, although this is not enough to meet the global target to cut tuberculosis, or TB, cases by half by 2010, the World Health Organization (WHO) said yesterday.

In the Philippines, around 75 people die of TB everyday. The country ranks ninth among the 22 nations heavily burdened with TB.
[DatePublished] => 2006-09-21 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804896 [AuthorName] => Sheila Crisostomo [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 230774 [Title] => More young Pinoys engaging in premarital sex [Summary] => A growing number of young Filipinos are engaging in premarital sex (PMS), with most girls having their "sexual debut" in their boyfriends’ homes, a report of the United Nations Population Fund and the Commission on Population shows. [DatePublished] => 2003-12-08 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804896 [AuthorName] => Sheila Crisostomo [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 141468 [Title] => The Zyoptix process & vision error correction [Summary] => Using contact lens and eyeglasses for people with vision problems like myopia or nearsightedness is getting to be a thing of the past with the advent of new technologies and better equipment in correcting refractive errors.

Nearsightedness with or without astigmatism is an ocular condition wherein the image of distant objects is formed in front of the retina. Here, light is focused in front of the retina of the myopic eye, and, in most cases, this is due to the fact that the eye is too large from front (corneal) to back (axial).
[DatePublished] => 2001-11-26 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1284406 [AuthorName] => Dr. Jerome Sarmiento [SectionName] => Science and Environment [SectionUrl] => science-and-environment [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 140627 [Title] => RP has one of lowest HIV prevalence rates [Summary] => The Philippines has one of the lowest human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) prevalence rates among countries in Southeast Asia, a United Nations Population Fund (UNPF) report shows.

According to the report, Cambodia, Myanmar and Thailand have the highest HIV prevalence percentage rates in the region.

Cambodia has a 2.36 percent prevalence rate of HIV among its male population and 3.51 percent among women. Following close behind is Thailand with 1.18 and 2.32 percent, respectively, and Myanmar with 1.04 and 1.72 percent, respectively.
[DatePublished] => 2001-11-19 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 83429 [Title] => Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease cases mounting in Asia [Summary] => SAN FRANCISCO, California — More than six percent of the population of Asia-Pacific countries may have the Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), the fourth leading cause of death in the world.
[DatePublished] => 2001-05-27 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Science and Environment [SectionUrl] => science-and-environment [URL] => ) ) )
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