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Rate of Pacific Islanders and Maori needing treatment for diabetes slowing

By Barbara Dreaver, Pacific Correspondent
March 3, 2018

Nearly 250,000 people in New Zealand have type two diabetes with around 4000 of them progressing to kidney failure.

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