In Afghanistan, the heart and veins health issues are causing deaths

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Officials of the Afghan Public Health Ministry said according the recent information shows that women are more likely to develop heart disease than men.


 According to some international research, every year about 17 million people worldwide die of cardiovascular diseases or cardiovascular diseases. The fear has also been shown that this number will be up to 23 million people in the next 20 years. Officials of the Afghan Health Ministry said the sharp reality of heart disease is that a large number of vulnerable people live in developing countries and around 80 percent of the deaths occur in those countries. Najia Safi has more; please listen to the full report in Pashto


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