The future toll of the obesity epidemic will likely hit hardest in low- and middle-income countries. Ongoing urbanization promotes risk factors including sedentary lifestyle and fat- and sugar-laden diets. Low-income countries like Nepal experience a double disease burden: infectious diseases as well as rising incidence of noncommunicable diseases (e.g., cardiovascular disease and diabetes mell...

The current SARS-CoV-2 (Covid 19) pandemic has been tragic but also instructional. It revealed the flaws in life-course health management that caused aging populations to lack resiliency, carry multiple inflammation-driven noncommunicable diseases and be evermore dependent upon medical/caregiver services as well lifelong drug prescriptions. We have witnessed decades of medical symptom for like ...

Chronic noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) such as hypertension, atherosclerosis, acute myocardial infarction, stroke, diabetes, obesity, and chronic kidney disease are the major cause of death not only in high income, but also in medium and low income countries. Hypertension and diabetes, the most common causes of chronic kidney disease, are particularly common in southeast Asian Countries. Becau...

Noncommunicable conditions, including cardiovascular diseases (CVD), diabetes, obesity, cancers and respiratory diseases, account for 59% of the 56.5 million deaths annually and 45.9% of the global burden of disease. Half of these (17 million annually) are CVD, the majority heart disease and stroke. Five of the top 10 selected global disease burden risk factors identified by World Health Report...

aims: non-communicable diseases have become an emerging pandemic globally with disproportionately higher rates in developing countries. this study aimed to design a representative model of non-communicable diseases determinants in iran according to the viewpoint of experts. participants & methods: the statistical population of this qualitative study was experts and academic member informants, w...