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UN Interagency Task Force on NCDs supports Oman to tackle noncommunicable diseases

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The United Nations Interagency Task Force on the Prevention and Control of Noncommunicable Diseases (NCDs) carried out a joint mission to Oman from 10 to 12 April 2016 to support the Government of Oman in their efforts to tackle NCDs.The Joint Mission found that NCDs - principally cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, cancers, chronic respiratory diseases cause 68% of all deaths in the Sultanate of Oman and the probability of dying prematurely from one of these diseases is 18%.

This means that nearly one of every five adult dies from NCDs before they should.Globally, the key risk factors for NCDs are tobacco use, unhealthy diet, physical inactivity and the harmful use of alcohol.

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