The Global Challenges of Noncommunicable Diseases

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  Atlas of availability of national actions to limit salt or fat intake or increase fruit and vegetable intake or physical activity.

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  Geographic boundaries from the United Nations Cartographic Section were used [105].

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  Percentage of individuals with high depression scores (SRQ scores>6), high PTSD scores (HTQ scores≥30), and high function scores (≥8) assessed at baseline, 3 months, and 6 months.

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  QQ plots of different models of population change in BMI over time.

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  The observed pattern of change (from Figure 2) in green, uniform change model in red, and a proposed model of ideal change in blue. The corresponding table indicates impact of each model of change on (1) mean BMI, (2) dispersion of BMI, and (3) risk level of low and high BMI population segments.

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  Individual NSAID defined daily doses (DDD) expressed as a percentage of total NSAID DDD sales in each country in 2011.

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  Data reflect retail pharmacy and hospital sales in all countries except Bangladesh and Pakistan [retail pharmacy sales], China [hospital sales], and England and Canada [prescription sales only].

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  Place of cancer deaths in England, 1993–2010, age- and gender-standardised against the UN mortality standard population.

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  The 95% CIs were not plotted as they were too narrow to show.