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Chronic diseases more often affect those on low incomes and more significantly reduce their life expectancy
Between 2016 and 2017, the poorest 10% in France more often developed a chronic disease than the wealthiest 10%, with comparable age and sex: 2.8 times more cases of diabetes, 2.2 times more liver or pancreatic diseases, 2.0 times more psychiatric conditions, 1.6 times more chronic respiratory diseases, 1.5 times more neurological or degenerative diseases and 1.4 times more cardiovascular diseases[...]