In the last century, due to the rapid development of science, changes in dietary habits, in parallel with these, newly developed drugs and vaccines, which led to take control of communicable diseases, has caused to an increase in life expectancy. The increase in life expectancy also increased the incidence of non-communicable chronic diseases.
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Hacibekiroglu et al. (2013) studied this question.