Background: The growing prevalence of non-communicable diseases (NCD), which cause the high mortality and disability, necessitates research to prevent them improves early diagnosis. Currently, relevance NCD prevention is particular importance because patients have an increased risk severe course COVID-19. Taking into account processes urbanization, study features epidemiology factors for develo...

As a result of an epidemiological transition from communicable to non-communicable diseases for last few decades, cardiovascular diseases (CVD) are being considered as an important cause of mortality and morbidity in many developing countries including Bangladesh. Performing an extensive literature search, we compiled, summarized, and categorized the existing information about CVD mortality and...

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1 Department of PharmacoEpidemiology and PharmacoEconomics (PE 2 ), University of Groningen, Antonius Deusinglaan 1, 9713 AV Groningen, THE NETHERLANDS 2 Department of Epidemiology, Oncology Institute of Vojvodina, Put dr Goldmana 4, 21024 Sremska Kamenica, SERBIA 3 Department of Epidemiology, Medical Faculty, University of Novi Sad, Hajduk Veljkova 3, 21000 Novi Sad, SERBIA 4 Department for pr...

INTRODUCTION Many developed and developing countries are grappling with recent epidemics of non-communicable diseases and how to effectively control them. Singapore as a small, compact and highly urbanized country has similarly experienced a rapid increase in its chronic disease load and has adopted a national approach to control them. METHODS This paper traces the strategies taken in the 80s...

Background The burden of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) is accelerating. Given that the capacity of health systems in LMICs is already strained by the weight of communicable diseases, these countries find themselves facing a double burden of disease. NCDs contribute significantly to morbidity and mortality, thereby playing a major role in the cycle ...

It is estimated that between 2010 and 2030 there will be a 98% increase in the number of adults in sub-Saharan Africa with diabetes.1 This is just one aspect of the epidemic of non-communicable diseases facing subSaharan Africa, driven by urbanisation, ageing, and changes to lifestyle and environment. The diabetes epidemic poses a significant challenge to health services, as non-communicable co...