Co-managing the double burden: strategies for simultaneously tackling infectious and non-communicable diseases
Jiao-Jiao Li, Mei-Lan Fu, Lingyun-Fei Kong, Zi-Yu Zhao, Okugbe Ebiotubo Ohore, Robert Bergquist, Marcel Tanner, Guo-Jing Yang · 2026
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Li and colleagues wrote a 2026 review on handling two disease burdens at once. Infections and long-term diseases have long been treated in separate silos. Yet each can feed the other in clear, two-way patterns. The team sifted nearly 5,800 records and kept 41 reviews for close reading.
Some infections clearly raise cancer risk, as with hepatitis and liver cancer. A stomach germ links to stomach cancer, and a virus to cervical cancer. Long-term diseases, in turn, make infections hit harder when they strike. Diabetes and heart disease worsened outcomes in flu, tuberculosis, and COVID-19 cases. The authors urge joined-up prevention, screening, and care plans. Joint clinics for both disease kinds are one shared-care model proposed.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Jiao-Jiao Li, Mei-Lan Fu, Lingyun-Fei Kong, Zi-Yu Zhao, Okugbe Ebiotubo Ohore, Robert Bergquist, Marcel Tanner, Guo-Jing Yang |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 69 KB |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC0 |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |