The silent threat of non-communicable diseases

Such diseases deteriorate health without visible symptoms until reaching advanced stages, highlighting the vital need for health monitoring.

Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are the diseases or conditions that affect individuals over an extensive period of time and for which there are no known causative agents that are re-transmitted from one affected individual to another. Once primarily a concern in developed nations, NCDs are now surging in developing countries, leading to high mortality and morbidity. Today, NCDs constitute approximately around 74 percent of total mortality and morbidity globally, and of all NCD deaths, 77 percent are in low- and middle-income countries.