Abstract
Chronic diseases, better known as non-communicable diseases (NCDs), account for 53% of the deaths and 44% of DALYs in India. Although these chronic diseases are highly prevalent in urban areas, they are inadequately detected.(1) Integrated disease surveillance project endeavors to conduct periodic surveillance of risk factors for chronic diseases using the WHO-STEPS approach.(2) This approach focuses core and expanded data on established risk factors of NCDs. The three levels of risk factor assessment include history of risk factors (Step 1), simple physical measurements (Step 2), and biochemical measurements (Step 3).(3) The purpose of this study was to assess the magnitude of the risk factors of chronic diseases in order to initiate steps for effective interventions.
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