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The prevalence and social patterning of chronic diseases among older people in a population undergoing health transition: a 10/66 group cross-sectional population-based survey in the Dominican Republic .

Acosta, Daisy; Rottbeck, Ruth; Rodríguez, J. G.; González, Loida M.; Almánzar, Mary R.; Minaya, Susana N.; Ortiz, María del C.; Ferri, Cleusa P.; Prince, Martin J. (BMC Public Health, 2010)

Very little of the increased attention towards chronic diseases in countries with low and middle incomes has been directed towards older people, who contribute 72% of all deaths, and 14% of all Disability Adjusted Life Years ...