{"id":41275,"date":"2019-01-29T17:29:05","date_gmt":"2019-01-29T11:59:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=41275"},"modified":"2019-01-29T17:29:05","modified_gmt":"2019-01-29T11:59:05","slug":"non-communicable-diseases-top-killers-in-south-east-asia-who","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/non-communicable-diseases-top-killers-in-south-east-asia-who\/","title":{"rendered":"Non-communicable diseases top killers in South-East Asia: WHO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sci-tech\/health\/non-communicable-diseases-top-killers-in-south-east-asia-who\/article26114279.ece\"><strong>Non-communicable diseases top killers in South-East Asia: WHO<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>News<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>According to World Health Organization (WHO), non-communicable diseases (NCDs) continue to be one of major reasons for death worldwide.<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Important facts<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Non-communicable diseases such as diabetes, cancer and heart disease, are collectively responsible for over 70% of all deaths worldwide.<\/li>\n<li>15 million people die prematurely, aged between 30 and 69 due to NCDs<\/li>\n<li>NCDs kill 8.5 million people each year in the South-East Asia Region<\/li>\n<li>Cardiovascular diseases, chronic respiratory diseases, diabetes and cancer are mainly caused by four modifiable behavioural risk factors: tobacco use, unhealthy diet, insufficient physical activity and harmful use of alcohol.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong><em>Suggestion:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>According to a study published in <em>The Lancet<\/em> eating fibre-rich foods reduces the incidence of coronary heart disease, stroke, type 2 diabetes and colorectal cancer by 16% to 24%.<\/li>\n<li>It also helps in lowering bodyweight, systolic blood pressure and total cholesterol<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Non-communicable diseases top killers in South-East Asia: WHO News According to World Health Organization (WHO), non-communicable diseases (NCDs) continue to be one of major reasons for death worldwide. Important facts Non-communicable diseases such as diabetes, cancer and heart disease, are collectively responsible for over 70% of all deaths worldwide. 15 million people die prematurely, aged&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/non-communicable-diseases-top-killers-in-south-east-asia-who\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Non-communicable diseases top killers in South-East Asia: WHO<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[957],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704713530},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41275\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}