If diabetes rules the charts of non infectious diseases leading to chronic health issues, high blood pressure aka hypertension is not too far behind. Combined, both hypertension and diabetes are major causes of long term morbidity and mortality currently.
With the improvements in healthcare systems, the incidence rate has been brought down drastically over the years, so much that it's a rare cause of maternal deaths in the western world. Even urban India has matched the western standards, while rural healthcare is catching up well.
Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission (ABDM [https://abdm.gov.in/]) was launched by
our honorable Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi Ji on 27th September 2021. ABDM
aims to digitise the health ecosystem of the
The issue with Dengue is that currently there is no specific medicine or vaccine available against it, which makes it even more important to be aware of the steps needed to prevent it.
While there are various parameters to define overweight such as abdominal obesity, BMI and body weight, an increase in body fat is related to a greater risk of postmenopausal breast cancer.