Pattern of death changing in India – heart and lung related diseases are top killers

#IHD #Diabetes #COPD #health #lifeexpectancy It is a fact that, thanks to better health care and improvements in type and nature of diagnosis and medicines, life expectancy has gone up in last 23 years in India. However, the pattern of deaths has undergone a major change.
Diseases in the non-communicable category are emerging as bigger killers. As per reports, every fifth death in the world is from India. India has 17.5% of world population but accounts for 19% of total deaths. Details at this link.

In the 1990s, leading killers were infectious diseases like tuberculosis, pneumonia, and malaria and, these have now made way for Ischaemic Heart Disease (IHD) which is also the top killer in the world. Moreover, diabetes, which did not figure in the top ten killers list in India in 1990, has now entered the list. It is at the tenth position.
IHD, stroke, diarrhoeal diseases, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) are the main culprits and, out of these, IHD and COPD together accounted for 32% of all deaths in the world.
In the opinion of experts, India needs to work towards minimizing the various causes of deaths that are showing a disturbing trend.
The top ten killer diseases in India in 2013 were IHD, COPD, stroke, tuberculosis, pneumonia, suicide, road injuries, hypertensive heart and diabetes.
Tuberculosis and IHD are two big causes of death in the age group of 15-49 years.
IHD killed mostly people above the age of 70.
Incidentally, suicides and road injuries were not there in the list of top ten killers in the country in 1990 but in 2013 these have emerged at seventh and eighth position respectively.

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