Highest mortality was due to cardiovascular diseases followed by cancer and diabetes and all three showed an increasing trend.
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Increase in premature mortality due to non-communicable diseases in Sri Lanka during the first decade of the twenty-first century.
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Overall, the crude death rate due to the four NCDs had increased from 2·8 to 3·4 during the study period, while ASMR failed to show a clear trend from 2001 to 2010.