5% Korean population suffers from chronic disease

The National Health Insurance Corporation said in a report that 5.38 million people had received medical checkups in 2002 and of these people, 260,000 people (4.8 percent) was
diagnosed as patients having hypertension, diabetes and liver disease.

This reflected that 485 out of 10,000 people had chronic disease.

By disease, patients with liver disease in the entire age bracket topped the...