NEW DELHI: Lifestyle diseases like heart and chronic respiratory diseases now kill more people than communicable ones like tubercolosis or diarrhoea in every state in India, including the most backward. The last group to do so, accounting for the highest number of people (588 million), made the transition almost a quarter of a century later, in 2010. India as a country made the transition in 2003.The report studies the period from 1990 to 2016 and shows that communicable diseases constitute almost two-thirds of the disease burden in India from a little over a third in 1990. Despite the transition, which is associated with development, malnutrition remains the single top risk for health loss. Kerala had the lowest burden due to this risk among the Indian states, but even this was 2.7 times higher per person than in China.

Source: Times of India November 14, 2017 20:26 UTC