July 21, 2012

Study finds 75 percent of Chinese adults at risk for diabetes or heart disease




Study finds 75 percent of Chinese adults at risk for diabetes or heart disease

FRIDAY, JULY 20, 2012

More than three-quarters of Chinese adults have at least one risk factor for type 2 diabetes or cardiovascular disease, reveals new data in a long-term study done by researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and published this week in Obesity. Rates of hypertension, diabetes and triglycerides are particularly high, even in the young and trim.

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Discordant Risk: Overweight and Cardiometabolic Risk in Chinese Adults

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