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Equally significant is the global health community's new focus on age-related health challenges, called non-communicable diseases NCDs, such as cardiovascular and respiratory diseases, cancer and diabetes.
Robert Hormats: The Aging Population: Economic Growth and Global Competitiveness Robert Hormats 2012
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These so-called "non-communicable diseases", which have all taken off as sedentary lifestyles, junk food, smoking and drinking have spread around the planet, are already a massive burden on rich countries and are steadily becoming one in poorer countries, too.
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These so-called "non-communicable diseases" or NCDs a terrible name which surely appeals only to the anoraks are all being worsened by our modern sedentary lifestyle, staring at computer screens and TVs, taking little exercise, eating junk food high in salt, fats and sugars and smoking and drinking alcohol.
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Equally significant is the global health community's new focus on age-related health challenges, called non-communicable diseases NCDs, such as cardiovascular and respiratory diseases, cancer and diabetes.
Robert Hormats: The Aging Population: Economic Growth and Global Competitiveness Robert Hormats 2012
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He said this was one of the early signs of the emerging threat of so-called non-communicable or chronic diseases, in developing countries.
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Such illnesses are also known as non-communicable diseases, or NCDs, and are the cause of the majority of deaths across the world.
Reuters: Top News 2011
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Equally significant is the global health community's new focus on age-related health challenges, called non-communicable diseases NCDs, such as cardiovascular and respiratory diseases, cancer and diabetes.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Robert Hormats 2012
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He said this was one of the early signs of the emerging threat of so-called non-communicable or chronic diseases, in developing countries.
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He said this was one of the early signs of the emerging threat of so-called non-communicable or chronic diseases, in developing countries.
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The analysis from the Seattle-based Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation has been published ahead of Monday's high-level summit on non-communicable or "lifestyle" diseases, including cancer, at the UN in New York, which will attempt to focus world leaders' attention on a plan to bring the numbers down.
Cases of breast and cervical cancer on the rise in poor nations 2011
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