About NCD-RisC
NCD Risk Factor Collaboration (NCD-RisC) is a network of health scientists around the world that provides rigorous and timely data on major risk factors for non-communicable diseases for all of the world’s countries.
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- 2021 Worldwide trends in hypertension prevalence and progress in treatment and control from 1990 to 2019: a pooled analysis of 1201 population-representative studies with 104 million participants. Lancet
- 2021 Heterogeneous contributions of change in population distribution of body mass index to change in obesity and underweight. eLife
- 2020 Height and body-mass index trajectories of school-aged children and adolescents from 1985 to 2019 in 200 countries and territories: a pooled analysis of 2181 population-based studies with 65 million participants. Lancet
- 2020 Repositioning of the global epicentre of non-optimal cholesterol. Nature
NCD-RisC in the News
- August 31, 2021 Le Monde - Dans le monde, seule une hypertension artérielle sur cinq est correctement traitée
- August 25, 2021 CNN - Number of people with high blood pressure has doubled globally, large study finds
- August 25, 2021 The Indian Express - People living with hypertension doubled worldwide in 30 years to more than 1.2 billion: Study
- August 24, 2021 Reuters - High blood pressure driven by obesity, poverty - WHO study