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A global study on human health revealed that the world is facing a huge storm of rising rates of chronic and ongoing infectious diseases, which has led to increased death rates during the Covid-19 pandemic.
The study said the outbreak of the Corona virus and the intertwining of the pandemic with a continued global increase in chronic diseases such as obesity and diabetes, in addition to environmental risks such as air pollution, exacerbated the number of deaths from infection with the virus. .
The study is titled “Global Burden of Disease” and is the most comprehensive of its kind. Published in the Lancet medical journal, it analyzed 286 causes of death, 369 illnesses and injuries, and 87 risk factors in 204 countries and regions, to provide a picture of the basic health status of the world’s population and the impact of COVID-19.
A compound epidemic
“Covid-19 is a serious health emergency,” said Richard Horton, editor-in-chief of The Lancet. He described the corona pandemic and the global high incidence of obesity, diabetes and other chronic diseases as a “compound epidemic.”
The study concluded that the most important causes of morbidity for people 50 years and older in the world are ischemic heart disease, stroke and diabetes. In the youngest age groups between ten and forty-nine, traffic accidents, acquired immunodeficiency disease (AIDS), low back pain, and depressive disorders were the most common.
It also revealed that the increase in chronic diseases combined with public health failures in the face of avoidable risk factors has made the world’s population more vulnerable to health emergencies such as the Corona pandemic.
Horton said chronic diseases such as high blood pressure, high blood sugar, obesity and high cholesterol, which are symptoms suffered by millions of people around the world, have played a role in the deaths of more than one million due to Covid-19 infection so far.
He added that these symptoms are caused by unhealthy diets and insufficient exercise.
“We will continue to determine the health situation in each country after the pandemic subsides,” he added.
