In 2006, life expectancy for males in Cyprus was 79 and for females 82 years.[1] Infant mortality in 2002 was 5 per 1,000 live births, comparing favourably to most developed nations.[2]

A systematic population analysis of deaths in the adult population (ages 15–59) and released in 2010 in The Lancet place Cyprus as the country with the lowest mortality in females and 14th lowest mortality in males.[3][4]

A new measure of expected human capital calculated for 195 countries from 1990 to 2016 and defined for each birth cohort as the expected years lived from age 20 to 64 years and adjusted for educational attainment, learning or education quality, and functional health status was published by The Lancet in September 2018. Cyprus had the twentieth highest level of expected human capital with 24 health, education, and learning-adjusted expected years lived between age 20 and 64 years.[5]

Major diagnoses

The three most common causes of death are circulatory disease, neoplasms, and respiratory disease.[6] The two most common cancers are prostate cancer and breast cancer.[7] The measles immunisation rate of 86% for one year olds is below the WHO European region average rate and second lowest in the EU.[8][9]

Health indicators

Life expectancy at birth in Cyprus

As of 2013, life expectancy for females was 85 and for males 80. Infant mortality in 2002 was 5 per 1,000 live births, comparing favourably to most developed nations.[10][11] A systematic population analysis of deaths in the adult population (ages 15–59) and released in 2010 in The Lancet, place Cyprus as the country with the lowest mortality for females and 14th lowest mortality for males.[12][13]

Diabetes

In 2015 it was estimated that 10.2% of the population has diabetes, costing about $2,295 per person per year.[14]

Smoking

Smoking rates in Cyprus are considered high by international standards. WHO Statistics from 1998 show that 38.5% of males were smokers.[15]

SARS-CoV-2 Deltacron hybrid variant

On 29 November 2021 following the emergence of Omicron variant, a Cypriot biologist and scientist Dr. Leondios G. Kostrikis announced that a new aware of COVID-19 variant so-called, "Deltacron", the first emerged in the Eastern European island country by his Cypriot health research team from the University of Cyprus in Nicosia. Dr. Kostrikis and his health research team from Cyprus are decided to start to tracking the hybrid outbreak in real time when public health experts uploaded the online databases, such as Worldometers and GISAID. Dr. Kostrikis said that the new hybrid strain of COVID-19 that is combined with Delta and Omicron variants was discovered in Cyprus.

Dr. Kostrikis said in an interview that there are currently Omicron and Delta co-infections and we found this strain that is combination of two different strains, where everyone infected or reinfected with both of them at the same time. Both of these virus variants could get into a single cell and their genetics could be mixed up and you could have a new viral and hybrid forms produced that could happen that is impossible. However, he said the discovery was named so-called "Deltacron", due to the identification of Omicron.

Most experts believe it was likely due to the result of a lab error, which is possible lab contamination involving Omicron fragments in a Delta specimen. Scientists from Cyprus believed that Deltacron is now real because of that mixture of a new mutations from both Delta and Omicron being found in mostly hospitalized patients. Dr. Kostrikis and his health research team have been identified 25 Deltacron cases and analysis show that the relative frequency of the recombinant infection is higher among hospitalized patients due to COVID-19, and compared to non-hospitalized patients.

Since then, many virologists have argued that it is most likely the result of a lab contamination, which purportedly shares specific properties with two different strains. Although Cypriot health research group was dubbed the supposed new variant, "Deltacron".

This hybrid variant is expected given that a large number of circulation, an intense number of circulation that we saw with both Delta and Omicron mutations, and given the sheer number of changes and is similar to Original COVID-19 virus, as well as Alpha, Delta, Omicron, and other variants, but it was much easier for researchers, scientists, and public health professionals, who are still ongoing. However, as of result, COVID-19 Deltacron hybrid variant is now less severe disease and deaths and as well as not spreading as much.

See also

References

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  2. ↑ "Cyprus – Infant mortality rate". Globalis. Archived from the original on 2010-07-31. Retrieved 2009-03-02.
  3. ↑ "UK 'has a high early death rate'". BBC News. 2010-04-29.
  4. ↑ Rajaratnam JK, Marcus JR, Levin-Rector A, et al. (May 2010). "Worldwide mortality in men and women aged 15–59 years from 1970 to 2010: a systematic analysis" (PDF). Lancet. 375 (9727): 1704–20. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(10)60517-X. PMID 20434763. S2CID 22598148.
  5. ↑ Lim, Stephen; et, al. "Measuring human capital: a systematic analysis of 195 countries and territories, 1990–2016". Lancet. Retrieved 5 November 2018.
  6. ↑ "Health Systems in Transition. European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies" (PDF). World Health Organization. World Health Organization.
  7. ↑ "Cancer Cases 1998-2012 Summary Results" (PDF). Health Monitoring Unit. Ministry of Health of the Republic of Cyprus.
  8. ↑ "Cyprus: WHO Statistical Profile" (PDF). World Health Organization. World Health Organization. January 2015.
  9. ↑ "Childhood Vaccination Programs". Health at a Glance: Europe 2016 State of Health in the EU Cycle. OECD. 2016. doi:10.1787/888933429639.
  10. ↑ "Cyprus – WHO". World Health Organization. 2008. Retrieved 2009-03-02.
  11. ↑ "Cyprus – Infant mortality rate". Globalis. Archived from the original on 2010-07-31. Retrieved 2009-03-02.
  12. ↑ "UK 'has a high early death rate'". BBC News. 2010-04-29.
  13. ↑ Rajaratnam JK, Marcus JR, Levin-Rector A, et al. (May 2010). "Worldwide mortality in men and women aged 15–59 years from 1970 to 2010: a systematic analysis" (PDF). Lancet. 375 (9727): 1704–20. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(10)60517-X. PMID 20434763. S2CID 22598148.
  14. ↑ "Top 10: Which country has the highest rates of diabetes in Europe? The UK's position might surprise you…". Diabetes UK. 27 August 2015. Retrieved 20 December 2015.
  15. ↑ "Archived copy" (PDF). www.who.int. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 November 2003. Retrieved 15 January 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
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