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NCDs account for two-thirds of world’s mortality, morbidity: Study

New Delhi: Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) now account for nearly two-thirds of the world’s total mortality and morbidity, led by ischemic heart disease, stroke, and diabetes, according to the latest Global Burden of Disease (GBD) study published in The Lancet on Sunday, even as the global all-cause mean age at death increased from 46.8 years in 1990 to 63.4 years in 2023. A doctor Halehezo Albert attends to a diabetes patient at the Kivu Diabetes Center, in the Ibanda commune of Bukavu, South Kivu Province in the Democratic Republic of Congo. (REUTERS) For men, the mean age increased from 45.4 years to 61.2 years, and for women it increased from 48.5 years to 65.9 years in the...


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