PETALING JAYA: Non-communicable chronic diseases, such as cardiovascular disease, remain the world's biggest killers, said Sultan of Perak Sultan Nazrin Muizzuddin Shah.
"(These diseases) account for an estimated 60% of deaths worldwide. Half of the deaths are due to cardiovascular disease, which is still the number one cause of death globally," he said in his keynote address at the 50th Malaysia-Singapore Congress of Medicine Friday.
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