Dear Editor in Chief

Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are the most common causes of mortality worldwide in the 21st century (1-4). More than 36 million people die annually due to NCDs, that almost 80 % of these deaths occur in developing countries (lower- and middle-income countries) (5, 6). Hence, the World Health Organization (WHO) in 2005 proposed a strategy for control and prevention of NCDs which offers the health community a new global goal: to reduce death rates from all chronic dis-eases by 2 % per year over and above existing trends during the next 10 years (1, 7). According to the latest estimates of the WHO, countries are expected to lose considerable amounts of national income as a result of NCDs negative impact on labor supplies and a reduction in gross domestic production (GDP). According to the same report in 2005, estimated losses result-ing from heart disease, stroke and diabetes in na-tional income has been calculated 18 billion inter-national dollars in China, 11 billion in Russia, 9 billion in India and 3 billion in Brazil's. Also, loses for the countries of the United Kingdom, Paki