NATIONAL NON-COMMUNICABLE DISEASE MONITORING SURVEY (NNMS)

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• While two in five adults have three or more risk factors for non-communicable diseases (NCD) in India, the status of health system in responding to the disease burden is also underscored.
  
  
• More than one in every four adults and 6.2% adolescents were overweight or obese; almost three out of ten adults had raised blood pressure and 9.3% had raised blood glucose.
  
  
• More than two in five adults and one in four adolescents were doing insufficient physical activity and their average daily intake of salt was 8 gms.
  
  
• One in every three adults and more than one-fourth proportion of men used any form of tobacco and consumed alcohol in past 12 months respectively.