Abstract
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Background; Modification of known risk factors has been the most tested strategy for dealing with non-communicable diseases (NCDs). The cumulative number of NCD risk factors exhibited by an individual depicts a disease burden. However, understanding the risk factors associated with increased NCD burden has been constrained by scarcity of nationally representative data, especially in the developing countries and not well explored in the developed countries as well.
Subjects
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Cumulative risk factors • Disease burden • Non-communicable diseases • Prevalence • Uganda • Adult • Body Mass Index • Cost of Illness • Cross-Sectional Studies • Diabetes Mellitus/epidemiology • Exercise • Female • Health Status • Humans • Hypertension/epidemiology • Male • Middle Aged • Noncommunicable Diseases/epidemiology • Obesity/epidemiology • Risk Factors • Smoking/epidemiology • Surveys and Questionnaires • Uganda/epidemiology • Scarcity • Public health • Developed country • Social policy • Disease burden • Health services research • Health policy • Medicine • Developing country • Environmental health