Meeting Risk Targets Would Reduce Premature Mortality From Main NCDs By 25% By 2025

MedPage Today (5/5, Neale) reported that research published online in The Lancet suggests that “meeting target levels of six risk factors would bring the world close to reducing premature mortality from the main noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) by 25% by 2025 – the so-called ‘25 x 25’ goal.” Researchers found that “achieving targets for tobacco smoking, alcohol use, salt intake, obesity, blood pressure, and blood glucose and diabetes would reduce the risk of dying prematurely from cardiovascular diseases (including stroke), chronic respiratory diseases, cancer, and diabetes by 22% in men and by 19% in women by that date.” This is the equivalent to “the delay or prevention of more than 37 million deaths – 16 million in people ages 30 to 69, and 21 million in those 70 or older.”