06, April 2019

Rise in non-communicable diseases (Vice President’s Secretariat)   WHAT Addressing the Annual Meeting of the National Interventional Council (NIC) of the Cardiological Society of India, Vice-President of India has described the rise in non-communicable diseases as a “deeply disturbing trend”. Burden of Non-communicable diseases increased from 30 per cent to 55 per cent between 1990 and 2016. Communicable diseases dropped from 61 per cent to 33 per cent in the same period.   FACTORS High…

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