Health of the Nation Report
April 12 , 2024
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- Apollo Hospitals unveiled the 4th edition of its flagship annual report, “Health of Nation”.
- This report dubbed India as the "cancer capital of the world".
- People in India are getting cancer at relatively lower ages compared to the Western countries.
- The average age of incidence has also gotten significantly younger in India.
- The most common cancers in order of occurrence in India are breast cancer, cervix cancer and ovarian cancer among women.
- For men, the most common cases are instances of lung cancer, mouth cancer and prostate cancer.
- Obesity rates surged from 9 percent in 2016 to 20 percent in 2023.
- Hypertension cases have increased from 9 percent to 13 percent during the same period.
- One in three Indians is pre-diabetic, two in three are pre-hypertensive, and one in 10 suffers from depression.
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