Prevalence of Non-Communicable Diseases and Its Risk Factors Among Adult Population of Arunachal Pradesh: A Health-Camp Based Opportunistic Screening Program.

Abstract

Tobacco and alcohol consumption, unhealthy diet and insufcient physical exercise along with other associated factors are considered to be the main causes of the four most common NCDs – cardiovascular diseases, cancers, chronic 1 respiratory diseases and diabetes. Rapid urbanization and industrialization has led to a global socioeconomic transition and thus promoted health risk behavior resulting in cardio 2 vascular diseases and events.