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vii. Unhealthy diet
viii. Mental tension
ix. High blood pressure
x. Increase in blood sugar level
xi. Increase in blood cholesterol

b. Causes that Cannot be Changed or Modified

The causes of non-communicable diseases that cannot be modified include:
i. Genetic causes or heredity
ii. Age
iii. Sex

Differences Between Communicable and Non-communicable Diseases

Parameters Communicable diseases Non-communicable diseases
Causes of • Get transmitted through • Unhealthy lifestyle
diseases germs and parasites from • Lack of physical exercise
infected person to a healthy • Smoking
person
• Chewing tobacco and
products of tobacco
• Drinking alcohol
• Mental tension
• Heredity or genetic cause
• Due to complication of
communicable diseases
Modes of • Direct contact with the • Genetically transmit from
transmission infected person/animal parents to their offspring
• Using articles used by the
patient
• Through vectors
• Droplet transmission
• From infected mother to her
baby
• Through contaminated
syringe, needle, blade, etc.
• Through animal bite/insect
bite

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