INTRODUCTION This article reports on the prevalence of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) and their risk factors in the city of Guangzhou, China, and shows a trend toward epidemic proportions when municipal data are compared with provincial data. METHODS We conducted the Guangzhou Community Health Survey in the 12 administrative districts of Guangzhou to learn about NCDs and their risk factors. ...

Perspectives Noncommunicable diseases pose an increasingly high burden of disease that threatens economic and social development , yet cost-effective health interventions exist. World leaders recognized the compelling case for action with the declaration at the United Nations high-level meeting on noncommunicable diseases in September 2011. Since that meeting, the World Health Organization (WHO...

Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) – primarily cancer, cardiovascular disease , diabetes and chronic respiratory diseases – represent a major health, social, and economic burden that affects women globally, yet their impact on women in low-and middle-income countries (LMICs) has not been fully recognized. 1 NCDs cause premature death and disability among women of all socioeconomic strata worldwide...

The growing burden of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs), for example, cardiovascular diseases and chronic respiratory diseases, in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) presents special challenges for policy makers, due to resource constraints and lack of timely data for decision-making. Concurrently, the increasing ubiquity of mobile phones in LMICs presents possibilities for rapid collection...

Editorials 623 Globalization offers great opportunities, but its benefits are at present very unevenly shared. Inequity in health at the population level is affected by global changes in marketing and trade, rapid urbanization and population ageing. The social, economic and physical environments in low-and middle-income countries often afford their populations much lower levels of protection fr...

The present study aimed to identify the prevalence of risk and protective factors for noncommunicable disease (NCDs) among Brazilian adults with pre-obesity obesity compare it that non-overweight in country. Data from National Health Survey (NHS) 2013 (n = 40,942) 2019 87,678) were used. Nutritional status was described according sociodemographic characteristics, health conditions, NCDs. Poisso...

Noncommunicable diseases and injuries (NCDIs) account for nearly 70% of deaths worldwide, with an estimated 75% of these deaths occurring in low- and middle-income countries. Globally, the burden of disease from noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) is most often caused by the "big 4," namely: diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, cancer, and chronic lung diseases. However, in Malawi, these 4 conditions...

Objective: Primary care, which is often the first level of contact for patients with various communicable diseases (CDs) and noncommunicable (NCDs), might exhibit patterns injectable drug utilization different from hospitals. We aimed to examine injection prescribing adults CD or NCD in primary care. Methods: In this retrospective study, single-diagnosis drug-containing prescription data Family...

Purpose As the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) continues to spread across countries, it is becoming increasingly clear that presence of pre-existing noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) dramatically increases risk aggravation in persons who contract virus. The neglect managing NCDs during emergencies may result fatal consequences for individuals living with comorbidities. This paper aims highlig...