Heart Disease, Cancer, Stroke Main Health Threats in China
16th Sep 2005, 13:02 GMT
As China’s economy grows so does the number of citizens with heart disease, cancer and stroke. In fact, those three diseases now represent the top killers of middle-aged people in China, fueled by high blood pressure and smoking, and have replaced infectious disease as China’s main cause of death. The findings from a study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, involving nearly 170,000 Chinese men and women over age 40 showed that about two-thirds of the 20,033 people who died during the research period were killed by heart disease, cancer or stroke. The conclusions were based on medical data collected in 1991 with follow-up evaluations in 1999 and 2000. Of those deaths involving people in their 40s to mid-60s, Chinese mortality rates from each of the three categories topped deaths among the same age group in the United States, according to the study. Full text of the study available here. Read Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments
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