Papua New Guinea (PNG) is a culturally, environmentally and ethnically diverse country of 7.3 million people experiencing rapid economic development and social change. Such development is typically associated with an increase in non-communicable disease (NCD) risk factors. Aim To establish the prevalence of NCD risk factors in three different regions across PNG in order to guide appropriate p...

Non-communicable diseases (NCD) are the leading cause of death and disability worldwide. The four main leading causes of NCD are cardiovascular diseases, cancers, respiratory diseases and diabetes. Recognizing the devastating impact of NCD, novel prevention and treatment strategies are extensively sought. Marine organisms are considered as an important source of bioactive peptides that can exer...

The demographic and nutritional transitions taking place in Uganda, just as in other low- and middle-income countries (LMIC), are leading to accelerating growth of chronic, non-communicable diseases (NCDs). Though still sparse, locally derived data on NCDs in Uganda has increased greatly over the past five years and will soon be bolstered by the first nationally representative data set on NCDs....

Non-communicable disease (NCD, hereinafter referred as chronic disease) accounts for 80% of total mortality from various causes in China, and has become a persistent global challenge. However, while there is a need to increase investment of resources for chronic disease prevention and control, the greater need is for a complete overhaul of the undeveloped traditional medical service system, to ...

Background: There are numerous studies and documents regarding the prevalence of smoking in Iran. Thus, to provide suitable information for decision-making and policy-making in this regard, the prevalence of smoking in Iran was evaluated using the meta-analysis of the results of the existing researches. Methods: Data were collected by searching the keywords cigarette, smoking, tobacco, and nico...

D health education and extensive advances in drug development, hypertension has become a global burden and has reached epidemic proportions. Hypertension is a silent and invisible killer accounting for significant mortality and morbidity universally. As per the World Health Statistics 2012, of the estimated 57 million global deaths in 2008, 63% were due to non communicable disease (NCD). The la...

BACKGROUND To estimate the prevalence of non-communicable disease (NCD) risk factors at a provincial level in Vietnam, and to assess whether the summary estimates allow reliable inferences to be drawn regarding regional differences in risk factors and associations between them. METHODS Participants (n = 14706, 53.5 % females) aged 25-64 years were selected by multi-stage stratified cluster sa...

Background: Diabetes Mellitus is a chronic metabolic and non-communicable disease characterized by high blood glucose levels has multiple aetiologies. According to the IDF Atlas recent edition, Global prevalence of diabetes was 9.3% currently, India holds second position globally with 77 million adults living in 2030 it expected cross 101 million. This due interaction factors leading significan...

Introduction: NCDs are one of the major challenges for public health in 21st century, not only terms human suffering but also harm to socio-economic development country. As elderly population is likely increase future, and there a definite shift disease pattern i.e., from communicable non-communicable, it high time that care system gears itself growing needs an optimal comprehensive manner. To ...

BACKGROUND Targeted global efforts to improve survival of young adults need information on mortality trends; contributions from health and demographic surveillance system (HDSS) are required. METHODS AND FINDINGS This study aimed to explore changing trends in deaths among adolescents (15-19 years) and young adults (20-24 years), using census and verbal autopsy data in rural western Kenya usin...