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From: Temporal trends in the burden of non-communicable diseases in countries with the highest malaria burden, 1990–2019: Evaluating the double burden of non-communicable and communicable diseases in epidemiological transition

Fig. 2

Age-standardized death rates for the eight leading NCDs in the ten selected countries, 2019. Including ischemic heart disease, stroke, diabetes mellitus, chronic liver diseases, chronic kidney disease, Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and hypertensive heart disease. Of these eight diseases, ischemic heart disease, stroke and diabetes mellitus were the most common leading causes of death in all ten countries. The contribution (%) of the top five NCDs with the highest mortality rate to the total mortality rate of each selected country and the world is shown in Appendix 1

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Globalization and Health

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