India, Nov. 16 -- Reflective of a multifaceted and rapidly evolving urban, digitalized world, the past few decades have seen an epidemiological transition in disease patterns with a shift towards non-communicable diseases. The youth are far more influenced and vulnerable to the consequences of a skewed lifestyle, societal pressures, and myriad fallouts of technological immersion. Hence, there has been an alarming trend of growing numbers of young adults grappling with lifestyle-related health issues hitherto associated with middle age.

Lifestyle-related morbidity in youth is broadly categorised as non-communicable diseases (NCDs) and mental health conditions. Traditionally associated with older populations, NCDs are now manifesting in ad...