Remember this analysis of NCDs based on a Stepwise studies?

https://academic.oup.com/jpubhealth/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/pubmed/fdy176/5132767#.W8XMQcqwcoI.twitter

Another one is being done.

Jamie

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Govt to conduct national survey on diabetes risk factors
Aung Phay Kyi Soe
Myanmar Times
19 November 2018

The Ministry of Health and Sports will conduct a nationwide survey on diabetes starting next month, a senior health official said.

Dr Mya Lay Nwe, deputy director of the Department of Public Health, said the survey is supported by the World Health Organization.

“Our department will carry out the survey under the leadership of health experts and will finish it in 2019,” she said.

The survey will be based on the WHO Step-wise approach to monitoring non-communicable diseases and will cover four major behavioural risk factors – tobacco use, abuse of alcohol, insufficient physical activity and low consumption of fruits and vegetables – as well as the four major biological risk factors – obesity, hypertension, high blood glucose and abnormal lipid levels.

It will also collect information that may be applicable to improving tobacco-control policy.

“The survey will likely indicate that almost all of the major risk factors for non-communicable diseases are highly prevalent among adults in Myanmar. Based on the lifestyles of Myanmar people, the smoking rate and use of smokeless tobacco among adults may be on the rise,” Dr Mya Lay Nwe said.

The first such survey was conducted in Yangon Region in 2003 on the prevalence of non-communicable disease risk factors among people 25 to 74 years old. A second, national survey was conducted by the department among people 15 to 64 years old.

According to a third national survey of risk factors for diabetes in 2014, 43.8 percent of males aged 25-64 years were smokers and 62.2pc of males used smokeless tobacco.

https://www.mmtimes.com/news/govt-conduct-national-survey-diabetes-risk-factors.html