people with the lowest level of education were over three times more likely to live with hypertension diabetes and asthma or other chronic respiratory diseases and nearly five times more likely to live with depression than those with the highest level of education in however as in other eu countries there are notable variations according to income group about of people in the highestincome quintile reported to be in good health in compared with only about of people in the lowest income group figure nonetheless based on the institute for health metrics and evaluation ihme estimations nearly one quarter of the overall burden of disease in cyprus in measured in terms of dalys can be attributed to behavioural risk factors notably smoking but also risk factors often linked to poor diet and low physical activity ihme men are considerably more likely to smoke than women for men versus for women figure