Coronavirus has wreaked havoc in the whole world as cases keep on surging. The world is gripped in a perfect storm of soaring rates of chronic disease, persistent infectious diseases and public health failures that have kindled deaths in the Covid-19 pandemic, as per a major global study of human health. The emergence and extension of the coronavirus pandemic with a continued global rise in chronic conditions such as obesity and diabetes - with added environmental risks such as air pollution - have exacerbated the coronavirus death toll, it said.

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The Global Burden of Disease (GBD) study is the most comprehensive of its kind. Published in The Lancet medical journal, it analyzed 286 causes of death, 369 diseases and injuries and 87 risk factors in 204 countries and territories to present a view on the underlying health of the global population and the result of Covid-19. “Covid-19 is an acute-on-chronic health emergency,” said Richard Horton, the Lancet’s editor-in-chief. He described the coronavirus pandemic combined with high global rates of obesity, diabetes and other chronic diseases as a “syndemic”.

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The study found that the leading causes of ill health in people aged 50 and older worldwide were ischaemic heart disease, stroke, and diabetes. In younger people - aged 10 to 49 - road injuries, HIV/AIDS, lower back pain and depressive disorders were dominant. It also found that the rise in chronic diseases, combined with a failure of public health to tackle preventable risk factors, had left populations vulnerable to health emergencies such as the coronavirus pandemic.

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