In 2008, 36 million people in the world died from non-communicable diseases, representing 63 per cent of the 57 million global deaths that year.

In 2008, 36 million people in the world died from non-communicable diseases, representing 63 per cent of the 57 million global deaths that year.

What are non-communicable diseases?
The ones you don't catch from someone else...

... heart disease, diabetes, cancers.

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