The healthcare, financial and social burden of chronic diseases, such as diabetes mellitus, coronary heart disease, asthma, chronic obstructive airway disease, hypertension, chronic depression, osteoporosis, end stage renal failure and stroke, are steadily on the rise. In the US alone, some 125 million people now suffer from at least one chronic disease.
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