Tackling China's Noncommunicable Diseases: Shared Origins, Costly Consequences and the Need for Actior

Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) have become the leading causes of death worldwide. As a concerning example, China's NCD prevalence is accelerating. As elsewhere, hypertension, diabetes, heart diseases, stroke, and obesity are the major contributors to this increasing trend. A common set of preceding risk factors is responsible for these different conditions, including physical inactivity, unhealthy eating habits, altered patterns of sleep, environmental pollution, and tobacco and alcohol abuse..

Medienart:

Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2015

Erschienen:

2015

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - year:2015

Enthalten in:

Chinese medical journal - (2015), 6, Seite 839-843

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Yan Min Li-Xin Jiang Li-Jing L Yan Lin-Hong Wang Sanjay Basu Yang-Feng Wu Randall S Stafford [VerfasserIn]

Links:

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Themen:

China
Diseases
Implications
Non-communicable
Policy
Prevention
Research
Translational

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

OLC196568677X