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river/stream water, posing a health risk (Miles et al. 2019). Changes in the global land use adversely affect the ecology and the atmosphere shape local and global climate by leading to thermal zone effect and disrupted biodiversity and propel multinational agricultural and forestry trading. Metropolitan composition can minimise power usage and fossil fuel used by transportation, but it also enhances the heat island effect and restricts groundwater infiltration. Abiotic stresses such as destruction and elimination of natural events, which inhibit ecosystem regeneration during advanced development stages, may be worsened by urban development (Johnson et al. 2019). While increased population and economic activities are often highlighted, studies indicate that the associated growth in environmental consequences, as manifested in property transition, generation of waste, air and water pollution, among other things, is much larger and faster. More analysis is required on such an intensifying and accelerating trend in urbanisation‐environmental linkages (Li et al. 2019).

      2.4.3 Why Is Urban Development a Challenge for Cardiometabolic Syndrome?

Heart disease has quite a significant global impact. The disease has a huge financial impact on healthcare services of any country. The persistent existence of the condition imposes a significant financial burden on patients and it has a negative impact on their quality of life. This strain has a negative impact on treatment compliance and adherence, which leads to further problems. The overall cost of medical care escalated by ~50% between patients aged 31–40 years and for those aged 61–70 years (World Heart Federation 2015). The expense of cardiometabolic syndrome in the society is indeed likely to rise as in the developed world, where cardiometabolic syndrome impacts a large percentage of working‐age adults. In the long term, universal healthcare will face significant economic challenges as a result of rising general health costs, increasing maintenance costs, and a weak economy. If changes are not done, the pressure of cardiometabolic risk will fall on today's individuals and potential generations. Cardiometabolic syndrome harms people and children, inflicting physical signs of illness in low‐income countries. Because of late diagnosis and/or a lack of access to adequate care, many of these children die young. Many who recover can face a lifetime of disabilities as a result of a grossly mistreated disease. An infant who loses a parent does not only deal with the traumatic aftermath of their loss but also with the financial challenges of growing up in a one‐parent or no‐parent household. Kids may indeed be proposed to assist with physical labour or domestic tasks, or they may be forced out of education to serve at a young age. They will have to be responsible for a member of the family who's been hospitalised with CVD. Discrimination towards girls and boys may develop in education, as well as later on in life in respect of employment and wages and benefits, and in many nations, these are the principal determinants of capital stability. This prejudice may deter some communities from disclosing their child's medical conditions, creating an obstacle to medical care and treatment (Figure 2.4).

Figure 2.4 Societal stigma those are barriers to treat cardiometabolic syndrome.

      2.4.4 Attempts to Combat Cardiometabolic Syndrome Risk Factors

Regular physical activities benefit an individual's well‐being as well as his or her living standards. It encourages sustainable development, and also the prevention of obesity and excess weight gain, as well as social integration and civic health. Even after this counselling and the known benefits of fitness, global fitness levels are declining. According to recent global figures, inactivity exposes 60% of the world's population to health threats, resulting in numerous preventable deaths per year (Gupta et al. 2016). Inactivity is often dictated by the speed at which technology and modernisation are created, such as quicker home delivery of groceries, medications, and meals, which eventually leads to less moving and biking, electronic web browsing games, which attract kids to remain back at home and not actively play outdoors (Figure 2.5). Physical inactivity is tied to CVD or cardiometabolic risk factors such as hypertension, high blood sugar, and overweight (both specifically and tangentially). Amounting to both the built urbanised area in which they live and the moderately active patterns and lifestyles that have emerged in this era, children living in cities may be especially restricted in their ability to partake in adequate physical activity. Physical activity such as walking and cycling to school is discouraged by development trends such as rush hour traffic, a lack of pedestrians, and overcrowded streets. Adolescents families may be much less willing to exercise as they simply couldn't afford or use fitness programmes, diet plans, and athletic centres. Individuals are getting more depressed as digital leisure activities become more prevalent. As a result, regular exercise promotional activities must overcome social, psychological, and financial obstacles. By leading the way in reducing levels of physical immobility, the medical care is better positioned to do so, promoting physical exercise for all individuals and proposing individual advice as part of broader wellness programmes. Merge partnerships between various governmental departments and rated, industries, community‐based organisations, instructors, the internet, and the health service are more likely to result in strategic plans that reach a wide proportion of people and make suggestions, aid, and coordination for fitness exercises.

Figure 2.5 Plausible strategies to reduce cardiometabolic syndrome.

      Dietary habits are changing across the world as a result of scale‐up such as industrial prosperity, globalisation, and immigration. As a result of these habits, a trend of inadequacy and overnutrition has evolved, occasionally living side by side within the same nation, region, and even families. People in certain countries are growing up in a state of poverty and vulnerability, culminating in deficiency. The body triggers the storage and accumulation of fatty acids as a preventive mechanism of underfed people, increasing the risk of cardiometabolic syndrome and forming a tendency to obesity and diabetes. Saturated fat, processed food, glucose, and sodium diets have been attributed to four of the world's top leading causes of mortality: hypertension, diabetes, excess weight, and elevated cholesterol (World Heart Federation 2015). Unhealthy snacks are advertised in neon colours or sold with a game, ad campaigns with new figurative language; exposure of children to such commercials find it difficult to make a good decision and are therefore driven to ingest junk food. ‘Eat for Goals!’ was designed to encourage teenage individuals to accept a more balanced living and consume more healthy diet. ‘Government School Feeding’ and ‘Nutrition Programmes’ are undertaken to provide lunch for children who are in poverty. Such school‐based feeding strategies have improved the predictive enrolment rates, decrease absences, and provided support for and perception of a healthier lifestyle for kids that will last into adult years (World Heart Federation 2015).

The relationship between urban growth and smokers is an experimentally proven fact. One instance, research over four decades ago reported that urban residents seem to be more smokers than rural residents (Maric et al. 2021). ‘Smoking’ is being considered as one of the nations critically significant public health challenges. The disadvantages of smoking are quite well acknowledged in current history. Kids are just unable to monitor their own surroundings due to dependence on adulthood, and they can be compelled to breathe smoke‐filled air. Smoking may be conducted by adolescents for a variety of purposes. Other family and friends, such as siblings and parents, can have an influence on each other: whenever a relative smokes, the youngster is three times more likely to do the same. Girls are among the new targets of tobacco companies, as per the tobacco control collaboration, particularly in urban slums, where feminine smoker participation is still lower and the tobacco industry has recognised an economic boon to leverage. The implementation of the World Health Organisation (WHO's)