“The world is witnessing a new epidemiologic transition among the different categories of non-communicable diseases, with a cardiovascular disease no longer the leading cause of death in high-income countries.” Nigeria
Heart disease remains the leading cause of mortality among middle-aged adults globally, accounting for more than 40 percent of deaths, the data showed.But in richer countries, cancer now kills more people than heart disease, according to the twin studies published in The Lancet medical journal.
He said his team’s study showed that cancer was the second most common cause of death globally in 2017, accounting for just over a quarter of all deaths. The study followed more than 160,000 adults, in high-, middle-, and low-income countries over the course of a decade. It determined that people in poorer nations were on average 2.5 times more likely to die from heart disease than those in richer ones.
A second study, also by researchers in Canada, and looking at data from patients in the same 21 countries, found that so-called “modifiable risk factors” accounted for 70 percent of heart disease cases globally.Metabolic risk factors — high cholesterol, obesity or diabetes — caused more than 40 percent of all heart disease and were by far the biggest determinant of disease in richer nations.
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