In Italy, the prevention of NCDs is supported by the ‘Gaining Health: making healthy choices easy’ Programme and the National Preventive Plans (NPPs), which were implemented in a context in which NCDs were estimated to account for 91% of all deaths in the period 2000–2016, 13 with a decreasing trend of premature death from 2000 to 2016 for both men and women aged between 30 and 70 years.
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Trends of blood pressure, raised blood pressure, hypertension and its control among Italian adults: CUORE Project cross-sectional health examination surveys 1998/2008/2018.
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ope, such as Slovenia, Slovakia, Serbia, Romania, Poland, Lithuania, Hungary, Greece, Czech Republic and Portugal, a trend of decline was observed in women and a stable or slightly increasing trend in men; in other countries, such as Moldova, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Albania, a stable or an increasing trend is still ongoing both in men and women. 25 26 High-income countries have begun to reduce hypertension in their populations through strong public health policies such as the reduction of salt content in processed food and widely available early diagnosis and treatment that tackle hypertension and ot