A major research study has fuelled a fresh debate on whether non-communicable diseases disproportionately affect the poor or the affluent in India.
The study, published in PLoS One, calculated age adjusted prevalence rates of five major non-communicable diseases—angina, hypertension, chronic lung disease and asthma, vision problems, and mental disorders—from data collected as part of the Study on Global Ageing and Adult Health (SAGE), a cross sectional study on a nationally representative sample in Maharashtra, Karnataka, West Bengal, Assam, Rajasthan, and Uttar Pradesh.1
Read full article by Dr. Soumyadeep B at British Medical Journal
