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A new study in the BMC Public Health explores the prevalence of certain disease risk factors among socioeconomic groups in fifty low- and middle-income countries.
Daily smoking, low fruit and vegetable consumption, physical inactivity, and heavy episodic alcohol drinking are compared across varying wealth and education levels in order to characterise patterns of NCD risk factor distribution. The study concludes that poverty reduction and education-based campaigns will help to improve conditions that enable better health outcomes and that health promotion efforts should target the population groups with the highest risks.
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