Non-Communicable Disease (NCD)

A Non-Communicable Disease (NCD) is a disease that is not transmissible to another organism.

Context:
- It can range from being a Human Noncommunicable Disease to being an Animal Noncommunicable Disease (such as a domesticated animal noncommunicable disease).
- It can range from being a Chronic Non-Communicable Disease to being an Acute Non-Communicable Disease.
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Example(s):
- a Lifestyle-Linked Disease.
- most Cancers (exceptions include those attributed to STDs).
- Cardiovascular disease.
- Diabetes.
- Chronic kidney disease.
- Chronic respiratory disease.
- Osteoarthritis.
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Counter-Example(s):
- a Communicable Disease.
See: Disease, Stroke, ITP, Joint Disease, Heart Attack, Transmission (Medicine), Parkinson's Disease, Autoimmune Disease, Stroke, Heart Disease, Cancer, Diabetes Mellitus.

References

(Cenikj et al., 2023) ⇒ Gjorgjina Cenikj, Lidija Strojnik, Risto Angelski, Nives Ogrinc, Barbara Koroušić Seljak, and Tome Eftimov. (2023). “From Language Models to Large-scale Food and Biomedical Knowledge Graphs.” In: Scientific reports, 13(1).
- QUOTE: ... Noncommunicable chronic diseases (NCDs) account for more than 70% of deaths worldwide. Cardiovascular diseases account for most NCD deaths (17.9 M people annually), followed by cancerrs (9.3 M), respiratory diseases (4.1 M), and diabetes mellitus (1.5 M)1,2. As the leading cause of death globally, most of the deaths that happen from cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) are due to heart attacks and strokes3. A lot of scientific evidence indicates that between the most important risk factors for heart disease and stroke are unhealthy diet, alcohol and tobacco consumption, and physical activity. Among all the factors that contribute to the development and progression of CVDs, diet is one of the major ones4,5. It has been shown that eating more fruit and vegetables and decreasing the salt in diet reduce the risk of CVDs. ...

(Wikipedia, 2022) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-communicable_disease Retrieved:2022-4-16.
- A non-communicable disease (NCD) is a disease that is not transmissible directly from one person to another. NCDs include Parkinson's disease, autoimmune diseases, strokes, most heart diseases, most cancers, diabetes, chronic kidney disease, osteoarthritis, osteoporosis, Alzheimer's disease, cataracts, and others. NCDs may be chronic or acute. Most are non-infectious, although there are some non-communicable infectious diseases, such as parasitic diseases in which the parasite's life cycle does not include direct host-to-host transmission.
  NCDs are the leading cause of death globally. In 2012, they caused 68% of all deaths (38 million) up from 60% in 2000. About half were under age 70 and half were women. Risk factors such as a person's background, lifestyle and environment increase the likelihood of certain NCDs. Every year, at least 5 million people die because of tobacco use and about 2.8 million die from being overweight. High cholesterol accounts for roughly 2.6 million deaths and 7.5 million die because of high blood pressure.