In developing countries, Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) are increasing relentlessly. A recent review in East African Community countries showed that much need to be done to improve in prevention of risk factors, monitoring, surveillance, governance, and evaluation of health systems to tackle NCDs. In Burundi, there is no study which has been conducted to give an overview on status of NCDs and their risks factors. We conducted a review on estimations of NCDs statistics and pooled the data of NCDs and associated risk factors together with data available in report on cancer for Burundi. A descriptive analysis was performed, and statistical test was conducted to check the differences among burden distributions between male and female populations. We built linear model for diabetes and hypertension with same predictors (blood pressure, body-mass index, and cholesterol). Overall, data pooled in different studies showed that almost all NCDs have increasing trends in Burundi among male and female populations. The results showed increasing trends of all NCDs, except for hypertension. However, all risk factors are increasing. Although both populations have a very fast increasing trend of obesity, women, girls between 5 and 10 years, and adolescent girls are carrying the highest and fastest increasing burden of obesity compared to their male counterpart with same age categories. Cancer is also increasing with a lot of new types being diagnosed. We conclude that, NCDs are of a lot of concerns in male and female populations in Burundi. Adult men and women are at high risk of developing diabetes and hypertension. The prevalence of obesity among younger children and adolescent is alarming. There is a need of actions to be done in order to be able to prevent NCDs, but interventions targeting children and women should be put in place urgently.
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