The plague of NCDs afflicting Malaysia

According to the World Health Organization, Malaysia has no operational multisectoral national NCD policy, strategy or action plan that integrates several NCDs and their risk factors. — AFP

According to the 2015 National Health and Morbidity Survey (NHMS), about two-thirds of Malaysians have at least one of three non-communicable diseases (NCDs), i.e. diabetes, high blood pressure (hypertension) or high cholesterol levels (hypercholesterolaemia).

More than one in four (26.3%) have at least two of these NCDs and 7.2% have all three NCDs.