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National Non-Communicable Disease Monitoring Survey (NNMS)
February 3 , 2021
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- It was recently released in India by the Ministry of health.
- The survey was conducted for the period of 2017-18.
- This is the first of its kind of a comprehensive survey on Non-Communicable Diseases.
- It covers the age groups of 15-69 years, males and females from the urban and rural areas.
Key findings
- Two in five adults have three or more risk factors for non-communicable diseases (NCD) in India.
- More than one in every four adults and 6.2% adolescents were overweight or obese.
- Three out of ten adults had raised blood pressure.
- 3 Percent had raised blood glucose.
- One in every three adults and more than one-fourth proportion of men were involved in tobacco consumption and consumed alcohol in past 12 months.
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