Dear Colleagues,

The world has seen an epidemiologic transition from acute and infectious diseases to chronic and non-communicable diseases almost in every country over the last century. This transition has been achieved in most of the developed nations, but it is still happening in many developing countries. The reasons for this transition are multiple: invention and treatment of infectious diseases with antibiotics, prevention of diseases using vaccines, use of safe drinking water, proper sanitation, hygienic practices, and increasing host resistance using proper nutrition and healthy lifestyles. However, noncommunicale diseases (NCDs), such as heart disease, cancers, stroke, chronic lung diseases, and diabetes mellitus, are on the rise. These few NCDs make up 74 percent of all preventable deaths worldwide. Tobacco use, physical inactivity, unhealthy diets, and the unhealthy use of alcohol are some of the identified risk factors.

Diseases, an MDPI open access journal, has proposed to focus on NCDs in a Special Issue starting in 2023. Scientists around the world are producing quality research on the impact of NCDs as well as their treatment and prevention. The primary goal of this Special Issue will be to identify determinants of increased morbidity and mortality from NCDs and realize their prevention. Screening and early detection, treatment and palliative care are some of the key components in the prevention of NCDs.

We encourage you to submit your original articles, systematic reviews, meta-analysis, surveillance reports, use of medical technologies, prediction models and so on in this Special Issue.

We look forward to receiving your contributions.

Prof. Dr. Amal K. Mitra
Prof. Dr. Malay Kanti Mridha
Guest Editors

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• epidemiology
• risk identification
• pathology
• treatment
• prevention
• comorbidities
• biomarkers
• molecular epidemiology
• social epidemiology
• prediction using AI and ML
• meta-analysis