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Cardiovascular and oncological diseases and AIDS will be the leading causes of death in the 21st century, reports RIA Novosti.

Experts believe that cancer will not be definitively defeated in the century, but a cure for AIDS can only be detected at the end of the century

According to the World Health Organization 41 million people die of non-infectious diseases worldwide, accounting for 71% of total mortality. The largest proportion of cardiovascular diseases is 17.9 million deaths. "People are mainly dying from non-infectious diseases, mainly cardiovascular diseases;" According to Ivanova, prophylaxis and treatment of cardiovascular disease in many countries are sufficiently advanced and allow many patients to survive, "said Ekaterina Ivanova, MD, chief of medical prophylaxis for the Moscow region at the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation

. Stroke or stroke In most countries, however, medicine is not at a Such a high level and death rate of this type of disease remains too high

According to WHO, cancer is the second leading cause of death in the world.In 2015, 8.8 million people died from oncological diseases, that is to say every sixth of deaths.It should be noted that the incidence of cancer increases mainly due to the increase in life expectancy in theThe food changes in the developed world's population as well as environmental pollution also have an impact. "Eating can be one of the risk factors for the development of malignant tumors.We eat fewer and fewer foods of plant origin and higher in protein, fat and carbohydrates. In developed countries and some developing countries like China, obesity is already a real epidemic .This is also a risk for the development of malignant tumors, "says Professor Sergei Tujlindin, president of The Russian Society of Clinical Oncology (RUSSCO): "Today, we can treat a tumor to heal it, but we have not yet learned how to heal our DNA. person of a particular tumor, but tomorrow she will develop another tumor, a day after tomorrow, etc., "explains Professor Tujlandin.

According to the WHO, AIDS remains one of the leading causes of death in the world. By the end of 2016, 36.7 million people were infected with this virus

"It is very likely that by the end of the century we will fight AIDS and create an effective vaccine Now, there are candidate vaccines that protect only about 30% of the population – it's far from enough.A vaccine should protect at least 70-80% of people to be effective, "explains Prof. Edward Karamov of the Russian Institute of Virology, according to him, it is possible that such preparations already exist, but the complete cycle of tests proving their effectiveness is still not carried out