In recent decades, there has been increasing focus on individual responsibility for health. The emphasis for non-communicable diseases (NCDs) has long been on screening, early diagnosis, and timely ...

Demographic and epidemiological changes are shifting the disease burden from communicable to noncommunicable diseases in lower-income countries. Within a generation, the share of disease burden ...

The early stages of chronic kidney disease (CKD) are usually asymptomatic, with kidney function progressively and ...

The World Health Organization has set out a plan to tackle non-communicable diseases like heart disease, which now pose a greater global burden than infectious diseases. "Lifestyle-related" diseases ...

The Global Burden of Disease report is a systematic, scientific report designed to quantify loss due to diseases, injuries and risk factors by age, sex and geography for specific points in time ...

Non-communicable diseases (NCD) are defined by The World Health Organization (WHO) as chronic conditions, usually of long duration, and caused by a combination of genetic, physiological, environmental ...

The gravest health threats facing low- and middle-income countries are not the plagues, parasites, and blights that dominate the news cycle and international relief efforts. They are the everyday ...

Correspondence to Professor Jens Bangsbo, Department of Nutrition, Exercise and Sports, Copenhagen Centre for Team Sport and Health, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen Ø 2100, Denmark; ...