Epidemiology of Obesity and Metabolic Syndrome in China
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During the past 25 years, China has undergone rapid economic development, which has resulted in a nutrition transition characterized by an increasingly energy-dense high-fat diet as well as a more sedentary lifestyle. As such, the burden from infectious diseases has diminished; however, a cardiovascular disease epidemic has emerged in China and other economically developing countries [1–4]. Diseases of the heart, malignant neoplasms, and cerebrovascular disease now account for approximately two thirds of all annual deaths in adults in China [1]. Much of the increased burden of cardiovascular disease in China can be attributed to increases in cardiometabolic risk factors including hypertension, cigarette smoking, diabetes, physical inactivity, and obesity.
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Reynolds, Kristi
2012
Current Cardiovascular Risk Reports
6
2
109-111
1932-9520
10.1007/s12170-012-0226-4
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