--- The Editor of The Lancet
<lancetmkt@...> wrote:

> From: The Editor of The Lancet
> <lancetmkt@...>
> To: <velu8@...>
> Subject: The neglected epidemic
> Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2005 14:04:54 -0500
>
> The reduction of chronic disease is not a Millennium
> Development
> Goal (MDG). While the political fashions have
> embraced some
> diseases—HIV-AIDS, malaria, and tuberculosis, in
> particular—many
> other common conditions remain marginal to the
> mainstream of
> global action on health. Chronic diseases are among
> these
> neglected conditions.
>
> Chronic diseases represent a huge proportion of
> human illness.
> They include cardiovascular disease (30% of
> projected total
> worldwide deaths in 2005), cancer (13%), chronic
> respiratory
> diseases (7%), and diabetes (2%). Two risk factors
> underlying
> these conditions are key to any population-wide
> strategy of
> control—tobacco use and obesity. These risks and the
> diseases
> they engender are not the exclusive preserve of rich
> nations.
> Quite the contrary.1 Chronic diseases are a larger
> problem in
> low-income settings. Research into chronic diseases
> in resource-
> poor nations remains embryonic. But what evidence
> there is 2,3
> shows just how critical it will be to intervene
> early in the
> epidemic’s course. There is an unusual opportunity
> before us to
> act now to prevent the needless deaths of millions.
> Do we have
> the insight and resolve to respond?
>
> With a new series of articles, 4–7 for which we
> thank the superb
> efforts of Robert Beaglehole, The Lancet aims to
> fill a gap in
> the global dialogue about disease. It is a
> surprising and
> important gap, one that health workers and
> policymakers can no
> longer afford to ignore. The call by Kathleen Strong
> and
> colleagues4 for the world to set a target to reduce
> deaths from
> chronic disease by 2% annually—to prevent 36 million
> deaths by
> 2015—deserves to be added to the existing eight
> MDGs.
>
> Without concerted and coordinated political action,
> the gains
> achieved in reducing the burden of infectious
> disease will be
> washed away as a new wave of preventable illness
> engulfs those
> least able to protect themselves. Let this series be
> part of a
> new international commitment to deny that outcome.
>
> Richard Horton
> The Lancet, London NW1 7BY, UK
>
> Please click on the link below to view the articles:
>
http://www.thelancet.com/collections/series/chronic_diseases
>
> 1 Preventing chronic diseases: how many lives can we
> save?
> Strong K, Mathers C, Leeder S, Beaglehole R
> Lancet 2005; published online Oct 5
>
> 2 Preventing chronic diseases: taking stepwise
> action
> Epping-Jordan JE, Galea G, Tukuitonga C,
> Beaglehole R
> Lancet 2005; published online Oct 5
>
> 3 Responding to the threat of chronic diseases in
> India
> Reddy KS, Shah B, Varghese C, Ramadoss A
> Lancet 2005; published online Oct 5
>
> 4 Preventing chronic diseases in China
> Wang L, Kong L, Wu F, Bai Y, Burton R
> Lancet 2005; published online Oct 5
>
>
>


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