“…The Nepal NCDI Poverty Commission used data from the 2010–11 Nepal Living Standards Survey to estimate the disease-specific impoverishing effects of NCDIs. 205 , 206 The Nepal Commission found that every case of cancer, high blood pressure, injuries, and heart, kidney, and liver disease could cause between 0·3 and 1·5 cases of poverty. At the population level, injuries, gastrointestinal diseases, and heart disease had the highest effect on impoverishment due to their prevalence.…”