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An Emerging Epidemic of Noncommunicable Diseases in Developing Populations Due to a Triple Evolutionary Mismatch
Jacob J. E. Koopman
Jacob J. E. Koopman
Section of Gerontology and Geriatrics, Department of Internal Medicine, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands; Leyden Academy on Vitality and Ageing, Leiden, The Netherlands; Department of Clinical Laboratory Sciences, School of Medicine and Health Sciences, University for Development Studies, Tamale, Ghana; Department of Public Health and Center of Healthy Aging, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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David van Bodegom
David van Bodegom
Section of Gerontology and Geriatrics, Department of Internal Medicine, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands; Leyden Academy on Vitality and Ageing, Leiden, The Netherlands; Department of Clinical Laboratory Sciences, School of Medicine and Health Sciences, University for Development Studies, Tamale, Ghana; Department of Public Health and Center of Healthy Aging, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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Juventus B. Ziem
Juventus B. Ziem
Section of Gerontology and Geriatrics, Department of Internal Medicine, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands; Leyden Academy on Vitality and Ageing, Leiden, The Netherlands; Department of Clinical Laboratory Sciences, School of Medicine and Health Sciences, University for Development Studies, Tamale, Ghana; Department of Public Health and Center of Healthy Aging, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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Rudi G. J. Westendorp
Rudi G. J. Westendorp
Section of Gerontology and Geriatrics, Department of Internal Medicine, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands; Leyden Academy on Vitality and Ageing, Leiden, The Netherlands; Department of Clinical Laboratory Sciences, School of Medicine and Health Sciences, University for Development Studies, Tamale, Ghana; Department of Public Health and Center of Healthy Aging, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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With their transition from adverse to affluent environments, developing populations experience a rapid increase in the number of individuals with noncommunicable diseases. Here, we emphasize that developing populations are more susceptible than western populations to acquire these chronic diseases, because their genetic, cultural, and epigenetic characteristics do not match with the eagerly awaited affluent environments. In regard to this, there is an urgent need for public health organizations to reorganize current environments in developing populations so as to fit their inherited characteristics. Unfortunately, this need is neglected as an essential part of the Sustainable Development Goals that form the core of the United Nations' Post-2015 Development Agenda. Only through global collaborative efforts can the environments in developing populations be reorganized and, thereby, the emerging epidemic of noncommunicable diseases be stalled.
Author Notes
Authors' addresses: Jacob J. E. Koopman, Section of Gerontology and Geriatrics, Department of Internal Medicine, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands, E-mail: j.j.e.koopman@lumc.nl. David van Bodegom, Leyden Academy on Vitality and Ageing, Leiden, The Netherlands, and Section of Gerontology and Geriatrics, Department of Internal Medicine, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands, E-mail: bodegom@leydenacademy.nl. Juventus B. Ziem, Department of Clinical Laboratory Sciences, School of Medicine and Health Sciences, University for Development Studies, Tamale, Ghana, E-mail: jbziem@yahoo.com. Rudi G. J. Westendorp, Department of Public Health and Center of Healthy Aging, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark, and Section of Gerontology and Geriatrics, Department of Internal Medicine, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands, E-mail: westendorp@sund.ku.dk.
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World Health Organization, 2013–2014. Global Health Estimates. Available at: http://www.who.int/healthinfo/global_burden_disease/en/. Accessed December 8, 2015.
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2.
World Health Organization, 2014. Global Status Report on Noncommunicable Diseases 2014. Geneva, Switzerland: World Health Organization.
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3.
World Bank, 2011. The Growing Danger of Non-Communicable Diseases: Acting Now to Reverse Course. Washington, DC: World Bank.
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4.
Joint WHO/FAO Expert Consultation, 2003. Diet, nutrition and the prevention of chronic diseases. World Health Organ Tech Rep Ser 916: 1–149.
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5.
Popkin BM, Adair LS, Ng SW, 2012. Global nutrition transition and the pandemic of obesity in developing countries. Nutr Rev 70: 3–21.
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6.
Beaglehole R, Bonita R, Horton R, Adams C, Alleyne G, Asaria P, Baugh V, Bekedam H, Billo N, Casswell S, Cecchini M, Colagiuri R, Colagiuri S, Collins T, Ebrahim S, Engelgau M, Galea G, Gaziano T, Geneau R, Haines A, Hospedales J, Jha P, Keeling A, Leeder S, Lincoln P, McKee M, Mackay J, Magnusson R, Moodie R, Mwatsama M, Nishtar S, Norrving B, Patterson D, Piot P, Ralston J, Rani M, Reddy KS, Sassi F, Sheron N, Stuckler D, Suh I, Torode J, Varghese C, Watt J, 2011. Priority actions for the non-communicable disease crisis. Lancet 377: 1438–1447.
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7.
Prentice AM, Rayco-Solon P, Moore SE, 2005. Insights from the developing world: thrifty genotypes and thrifty phenotypes. Proc Nutr Soc 64: 153–161.
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8.
Drenos F, Westendorp RGJ, Kirkwood TBL, 2006. Trade-off mediated effects on the genetics of human survival caused by increasingly benign living conditions. Biogerontology 7: 287–295.
-
9.
Van Bodegom D, May L, Meij HJ, Westendorp RGJ, 2007. Regulation of human life histories: the role of the inflammatory host response. Ann N Y Acad Sci 1100: 84–97.
-
10.
Gluckman P, Hanson M, 2008. Mismatch: The Lifestyle Diseases Timebomb. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press.
-
11.
Brinkworth JF, Barreiro LB, 2014. The contribution of natural selection to present-day susceptibility to chronic inflammatory and autoimmune disease. Curr Opin Immunol 31: 66–78.
-
12.
Jablonka E, Lamb MJ, 2005. Evolution in Four Dimensions: Genetic, Epigenetic, Behavioral, and Symbolic Variation in the History of Life. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
-
13.
Ulijaszek SJ, Lofink H, 2006. Obesity in biocultural perspective. Annu Rev Anthropol 35: 337–360.
-
14.
Brown PJ, Sweeney J, 2009. The anthropology of overweight, obesity and the body. Anthro Notes 30: 6–12.
-
15.
Scott A, Ejikeme CS, Clottey EN, Thomas JG, 2013. Obesity in sub-Saharan Africa: development of an ecological theoretical framework. Health Promot Int 28: 4–16.
-
16.
Gluckman PD, Hanson MA, Cooper C, Thornburg KL, 2008. Effect of in utero and early-life conditions on adult health and disease. N Engl J Med 359: 61–73.
-
17.
Tobi EW, Goeman JJ, Monajemi R, Gu H, Putter H, Zhang Y, Slieker RC, Stok AP, Thijssen PE, Müller F, van Zwet EW, Bock C, Meissner A, Lumey LH, Slagboom PE, Heijmans BT, 2014. DNA methylation signatures link prenatal famine exposure to growth and metabolism. Nat Commun 5: 5592.
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18.
Young F, Critchley JA, Johnstone LK, Unwin NC, 2009. A review of co-morbidity between infectious and chronic disease in Sub Saharan Africa: TB and diabetes mellitus, HIV and metabolic syndrome, and the impact of globalization. Global Health 5: 9.
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19.
United Nations, 2015. Transforming Our World: The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Available at: https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/post2015/summit. Accessed December 8, 2015.
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20.
Sharp D, Millum J, 2015. The post-2015 development agenda: keeping our focus on the worst off. Am J Trop Med Hyg 92: 1087–1089.
-
21.
Alleyne G, Binagwaho A, Haines A, Jahan S, Nugent R, Rojhani A, Stuckler D, 2013. Embedding non-communicable diseases in the post-2015 development agenda. Lancet 381: 566–574.
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22.
World Health Organization, 2010. Package of Essential Noncommunicable (PEN) Disease Interventions for Primary Health Care in Low-Resource Settings. Geneva, Switzerland: World Health Organization.
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