Years lost to poor health due to blood pressure, sugar increased by 50% between 2000-21: Study

The prevalence of metabolic issues such as those related to blood pressure, sugar and body mass index (BMI) has increased in people, signifying consequences of an ageing population and changing lifestyles, according to global research published in The Lancet journal...

Researchers found that years lost to poor health and early death (disability-adjusted life years or DALYs) because of these metabolism-related issues have increased by close to 50 per cent between 2000 and 2021...

They also found that people aged 15 to 49 were increasingly vulnerable to high BMI and blood sugar, both of which are known to raise the risk of developing diabetes..

The researchers forming GBD 2021 Risk Factors Collaborators presented estimates of disease burden due to 88 risk factors for preventable, non-communicable diseases and associated health outcomes for 204 countries and territories from 1990 to 2021..

The greatest declines in disease burden occurred for risk factors related to mother and child health and unsafe water, sanitation, and handwashing, with particularly high rates of these declines observed in regions ranking lower on Socio-Demographic Index (SDI), the researchers said...

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