Bahrain Mirror:  A report about top diseases in Bahrain revealed that the diseases that caused death in 2013 included chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, lower respiratory infections, breast cancer and others.

The report prepared by "Borgen" magazine, which is produced by The Borgen Project, an influential humanitarian organization, stated that while the political sphere keeps Bahraini affairs in international news, the top diseases in Bahrain that impact its citizens are less widely discussed.

The report divided its results by listing the non-communicable diseases, communicable, maternal, neonatal and nutritional diseases.

Statistics suggest that non-communicable diseases contribute to about 78 percent of deaths in Bahrain. Furthermore, there is a 13 percent risk of death among people in the age range of 30 to 70 due to cardiovascular disease (third of deaths), diabetes, urogenital, blood and endocrine diseases (23 percent of deaths), cancer (15 percent of deaths) and chronic respiratory diseases (6 percent).

As for the communicable, maternal, neonatal and nutritional diseases, the report stated that the most communicable diseases that led to death are diarrhea, lower respiratory, and other common infectious diseases that made up about half the death in 2013. However, these death lowered to less than 4%.

The report added that communicable, maternal, neonatal and nutritional diseases accounted for about a fourth of the deaths that occurred in 2013. However, in the overall picture of deaths due to disease in the country, these only attributed to slightly over two percent of deaths.

Other communicable, maternal, neonatal and nutritional diseases accounted for approximately 10 percent of deaths in 2013. However, in total these only caused less than one percent of deaths that occurred in Bahrain. Included among these were hepatitis and sexually transmitted diseases (other than HIV).

However, HIV/AIDS and Tuberculosis contributed to over nine percent of deaths in Bahrain. However, they have only led to less than one percent of deaths in 2013.

The report concluded that in spite of these diseases in Bahrain, the nation has taken many precautions, including the existence of a non-communicable disease component in its national health department. Statistics from 2014 show that slightly over 10 percent of Bahrain's spending went toward health.

2015 data showed that 99 to 100 percent of citizens in Bahrain had enhanced sanitation and drinking water facilities available to them, adding that Bahrain reached many achievements in reducing deaths resulted from communicable diseases.

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