China unveils first diagnosis guidelines to battle escalating obesity crisis
Voice of America
FILE - Patients chat with each other at a weight loss center in Changchun, Jilin province in northeastern China June 20, 2010.
China's National Health Commission (NHC) published its first set of guidelines to standardize the diagnosis and treatment of obesity, with more than half of China's adults already overweight and obese, and the rate expected to keep rising.
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