PETALING JAYA: Over half a million or 2.5% of adults in Malaysia live with four major non-communicable diseases namely diabetes, hypertension, high cholesterol and obesity—which are collectively dubbed as the three plus one diseases.
“84% of adults aged 18-29 years with diabetes did not know that they have diabetes,” the report said while noting that young adults were affected as well. Meanwhile, one in three adults were living with hypertension. This makes up for 6.7million people or 29.2% of the population.“The biggest proportion of those who do not know they had hypertension were those within the age range of 18-39 years old,” it said.
About 7.5 million adults or 33.3% of the population had high cholesterol. One in two who had the condition were unaware that they had it.Meanwhile, 1.4million adults were asthmatic while almost half a million children aged between six to 17 had asthma.
Source: News Formal (newsformal.com)
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