Global Status Report estimates nearly 52 million lives globally would be a prey to Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) by the year 2030. NCDs such as heart disease, diabetes, lung disease and cancers killed 38 million people globally in 2012 among which 8.5 million were South-East Asians. The report emphasized that this number is expected to grow larger if we do not act now to arrest this epidemic. Nearly 60 percent of all deaths in India, ...Wednesday 21 January 2015
It's Time to Bring Down the Prevalence of Non-communicable Diseases
Global Status Report estimates nearly 52 million lives globally would be a prey to Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) by the year 2030. NCDs such as heart disease, diabetes, lung disease and cancers killed 38 million people globally in 2012 among which 8.5 million were South-East Asians. The report emphasized that this number is expected to grow larger if we do not act now to arrest this epidemic. Nearly 60 percent of all deaths in India, ...
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