Project: Combatting Noncommunicable Disease Risk Factors in Youth
Data Sheet. Noncommunicable Diseases in Latin America and the Caribbean: Youth Are Key to Prevention
(2013) The four major NCDs—cardiovascular disease, most cancers, diabetes, and chronic respiratory diseases—will account for approximately 81 percent of deaths in Latin America and the Caribbean by 2030, and 89 percent of all deaths in high-income countries.