lifestyle disease

plural lifestyle diseases

1. Any of a class of diseases that appear to increase in frequency as countries become more industrialized and people live longer.

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   Its creation comes as international organizations and individual governments are increasingly worried about the prevalence and cost of lifestyle diseases. The rate of obesity has tripled in lower-income countries that have adopted Western diets and lifestyles, with doctors warning that the threat of diabetes has become pandemic.

   2018 January 25, Annie Lowrey, “More Taxes, Less Death?”, in The Atlantic