A large-scale study found a significant decline in mortality from chronic noncommunicable diseases — cancer, cardiovascular disease and diabetes — in most countries around the world from 2010 to 2019.
The analysis covered data from 185 countries. According to the results, the probability of dying from such diseases before age 80 decreased in 152 countries among women by 10% and in 147 among men by 6.7%. This is the first study to provide such a detailed picture of global changes in mortality from noncommunicable diseases. A decline in mortality was observed in four out of five countries included in the study.
Noncommunicable diseases remain the leading cause of death in the world today. The UN has set a goal of reducing such deaths by a third by 2030. The new study suggests that this goal is quite achievable — if the adopted measures are maintained and successful practices are shared between countries.
