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Question
Write short notes on the following:
Non-communicable diseases
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Solution
Non-communicable diseases - These diseases are not transferred from one person to another. They are of different types like allergy, nutritional deficiencies, degenerated diseases, cancer and mental diseases. Example - Arthritis, hypertension
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