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Chronic diseases in the Western world: Increasing incidence or increasing overdiagnosis?

In the editorial entitled 'Chronic diseases in the Western world: Increasing incidence or increasing overdiagnosis?', which appeared in the May 2016 SAMJ (Vol. 106, No. 5, p. 422), reference 1 should have read as follows: Nojilana B, Bradshaw D, Pillay-van Wyk V, et al., on behalf of the South African National Burden of Disease team. Emerging trends in non-communicable disease mortality in South Africa, 1997 - 2010. S Afr Med J 2016;106(5):477-484. DOI:10.7196/SAMJ.2016.v106i4.10674. The online version of the article (http://dx.doi.org/10.7196/SAMJ.2016.v106i5.10875) was corrected on 8 June 2016.