Influence of Body Mass Index to Avert Non-Communicable Diseases

As per many findings, NCDs are the leading cause of death globally. In 2012, it was recorded as 60% to 68% of all deaths in 2000. About half were under the age of 70 and women population was high [1]. Every year, at least 5 million people die because of tobacco consumption and about 2.8 million die from being obese. At the same time, the death rates of Hypercholesteremia patients are roughly calculated as 2.6 million to 7.5 million because of high blood pressure [2]. There are several reasons resulting this, emerging trend-urbanization, lifestyle transformations, and related factors might be person’s background, lifestyle, genetics errors in genetic information and environmental factors such as sunlight, nutrition, exposure to air pollution, which can affect people, are known to increase the certain non-communicable diseases. It also includes age, gender, and unwanted behaviors like smoking, unhealthy diet and physical inactivity which can leads to increased risk of many NCDs [3]. According to World Health Report in 2002, they identified five important risk factors increasing the level of noncommunicable diseases in health environment. They are raising blood pressure, cholesterol, tobacco use, alcohol consumption, and overweight/obesity. The other factors associated with higher risk of NCDs include a person’s economic and social conditions.