Author(s)

Sham Kumar Gupta¹, Mahima  ^1*, Badri Narayan Mishra², Sandip Kumar¹, Kiran Krishnappa¹, Sushil Kumar Shukla¹

¹Department of Community Medicine, Uttar Pradesh University of Medical Sciences, Saifai, India.
²R D Gardi Medical College, Ujjain, India.

Introduction: Non Communicable Diseases (NCD) has emerged as leading threat to mankind. It approximates to around 70% mortality burden worldwide. Its mortality burden is more in low & middle income countries. Most of the premature deaths from NCDs are attributed to modifiable risk factors. In Uttar Pradesh there has been a raise in prevalence of non-communicable diseases in the last two decades. Methodology: Mortality and morbidity data from 1st Jan 2014 to Dec 2016 was obtained from Medical Records Department, UPUMS, Saifai Etawah. The data, thus collected was analyzed by using SPSS 24. Results: Morbidity pattern in UPUMS Saifai reported Blindness and cardiovascular disease (CVD) was leading cause of admission and was increasing year after year. Road traffic acid (RTA), Stroke and CVD were the leading causes of mortality in last 3 years among the patients admitted in tertiary care hospital UPUMS, Saifai, Etawah, U.P., India. Conclusion: Even in rural area prevalence of NCD is at raising trend. RTA, CVD and Stroke were leading causes of death even in rural area.

Non-Communicable Diseases, Mortality, Blindness, Stroke, Road Traffic Accidents, Cardiovascular Diseases

Gupta, S. ,  , M. , Mishra, B. , Kumar, S. , Krishnappa, K. and Shukla, S. (2018) Burden of Non-Communicable Diseases at a Tertiary Care Hospital of Central Uttar-Pradesh: A Retrospective Study. Open Journal of Preventive Medicine, 8, 102-108. doi: 10.4236/ojpm.2018.84010.