Table 4.

Prevalence of NCD in adults of 30 years old and above (Source: data for NHMS III (2006), NHMS IV (2011) and NHMS V (2015) from Institute of Public Health [20, 22, 28] and for NHMS I (1986) and II (1996) from Ahmad [2])

	NHMS I (1986) %	NHMS II (1996) %	NHMS III (2006) %	NHMS IV (2011) %	NHMS V (2015) %
Total Diabetes	6.3a	8.3	14.9	20.8	22.5
Total Hypertension	14.4b	32.9	42.6	43.5	39.8
Total Hypercholesterolaemia	n/a	11.7	28.2	43.9	56.8

Note: Prevalences are for adults of 30 years old and above except for “a” (≥ 35 yrs) and “b” (≥25 yrs)