India leads the world with largest number of diabetic subjects earning the dubious distinction
of being termed the “diabetes capital of the world”. According to the Diabetes Atlas 2006 …

Cancer research currently is heavily skewed toward high-income countries (HICs), with little
research conducted in, and relevant to, the problems of low-and middle-income countries …

Summary The Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) target 3.4 is to reduce premature
mortality from non-communicable diseases (NCDs) by a third by 2030 relative to 2015 …

Summary The UN High-Level Meeting on Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) in
September, 2011, is an unprecedented opportunity to create a sustained global movement …

Background Hypertension can be detected at the primary health-care level and low-cost
treatments can effectively control hypertension. We aimed to measure the prevalence of …

At the present stage of India's health transition, chronic diseases contribute to an estimated
53% of deaths and 44% of disability-adjusted life-years lost. Cardiovascular diseases and …

Background To help adapt cardiovascular disease risk prediction approaches to low-income
and middle-income countries, WHO has convened an effort to develop, evaluate, and …

Oral, pharyngeal and esophageal cancers are 3 of the 5 most common cancer sites in Indian
men. To assess the effect of different patterns of smoking, chewing and alcohol drinking in …

Low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs) bear a disproportionately high burden of
the global morbidity and mortality caused by chronic respiratory diseases (CRDs), including …

Southeast Asia faces an epidemic of chronic non-communicable diseases, now responsible
for 60% of deaths in the region. The problem stems from environmental factors that promote …