[Comment] The missing link in the NCD agenda: girls and young women remain overlooked

An update to the original 2016 Commission, this second iteration of The Lancet Commission on adolescent health and wellbeing presents crucial data on the challenges faced by adolescents and shares a call for rapid investment in adolescent health and wellbeing.1 The Commission reports non-existent progress on non-communicable disease (NCD)-related mortality and disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs) for adolescents, with especially poorer performance for NCD DALYs for adolescent girls across all regions.