Non-communicable diseases like heart disease, cancer and diabetes are responsible for 74 percent of deaths globally and cracking down on risk factors could save millions of lives, WHO says
NCDs are not only the world's biggest killers, but they also have serious impacts on how people weather infectious diseases, as the Covid-19 pandemic demonstrated.
"Every two seconds, someone under the age of 70 is dying from an NCD," Bente Mikkelsen, head of the World Health Organization's division that oversees such diseases, told reporters in Geneva. "The data paint a clear picture. The problem is that the world isn’t looking at it," the report warned. A new NCD data portal launched by WHO on Wednesday shows the highest prevalence of deaths from cardiovascular disease - the world's biggest killer - in countries like Afghanistan and Mongolia.
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