INTERACTIVE: In Malaysia, unhealthy lifestyles prove increasingly deadly


  • Nation
  • Saturday, 10 Apr 2021

PETALING JAYA: Unhealthy lifestyles are killing more and more Malaysians, with deaths linked to ailments such as heart and cererbrovascular diseases nearly doubling from 2000 to 2017.

This is among the findings of an analysis done by The Star based on Statistics Department figures on the causes of deaths in the country since the year 2000.

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