Posbindu PTM”: The Key of Early Detection and Decreasing Prevalence of Non-Communicable Diseases in Indonesia

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Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) have be-come a global problem and may lead to an eco-nomic burden. In the wide world, NCDs cause 41 million or 71% of death deaths every year, 85% of it was premature deaths in low and mid-dle-income countries (1). Globally. there was an increase in NCDs preva-lence, from 47% in 1990 to 69% in 2020(2). In-donesia also experienced a surge in such cases from 39.81% in 1990 to 69.91% in 2017 (3). Many factors cause NCDs, such as smoking be-havior both active or passive, sedentary lifestyle, less physical activity, more sitting, also lack of fruit and vegetable consumption (4). All the fac-tors influencing global obesity as the main cause of metabolic syndrome include DM, stroke, hy-pertension, cancer, and many more (2,4)