Life
Killing Them Softly
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India’s rising affluent lifestyle is becoming a greater public health threat than poverty.
Heart diseases accounted for almost a quarter of deaths in the country, according to the government survey of 130,000 mortalities between 2001 and 2003, nearly twice the number of deaths from tuberculosis and diarrhoea-related diseases combined. The report by the Registrar General of India and the Indian Council for Medical Research has surprised health professionals who have long assumed that poverty was the greatest public health threat in the country |
