During last 30 years, there is a shift in death place i.e., from hospital to home. It is most likely due to the rise of NCDs. We are born with diarrhoea and will die with diabetes. I mean to say that we are born with infectious/communicable diseases and die with non-communicable diseases (NCDs). The incidence of cancers, cardiovascular diseases, and diabetes in India is alarmingly high.
Analysis of all-cause mortality from 1989 to 2014 shows that there is a 5 to 6 times rise of Cancer, Diabetes, Hypertension and cardiovascular diseases. Asthma and accidents (disease of development) were increased two times in the same period. World leaders should invest in addressing the global burden of cardiovascular disease (CVD) and other non-communicable diseases (NCDs) because Diabetes and Coronary Artery diseases are two of the Captains of the Battalions of Death. Cancer is still probably one of…
