Communicable and Non- Communicable Diseases in India
Although the Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) burden has grown, India still does not have sufficiently detailed data on NCDs for research and policy purposes.
In 2017, as a part of the Global Burden of Diseases, Risk Factors, and Injuries (GBD) Study, India State-Level Disease Burden Initiative Collaborators produced an analysis of state variations in epidemiological transition levels (ETL) during 1990–2016.
India GBD Collaborators found that leading cardiovascular diseases - ischaemic heart disease and stroke—made the largest contribution to the total burden of mortality in India in 2016, at 28.1% (95% uncertainty interval [UI] 26.5–29.1).
Furthermore, the contribution of cardiovascular diseases to mortality ....
