Too many Chinese dying from preventable chronic diseases
January 26, 2015 Category Health, Weekly
More than 3 million people are dying prematurely in China each year from chronic non-communicable diseases, the World Health Organization (WHO) said. Such diseases, including lung cancer, strokes, heart disease and diabetes, accounted for 8.6 million deaths in China in 2012. The WHO said that the prevalence of many key risk factors in China is “worryingly high.” “This new report is a dramatic wake-up call,” Bernhard Schwartlander, WHO’s Representative in China, said. Chronic non-communicable diseases can be prevented simply by changing common unhealthy lifestyle habits: smoking, excessive alcohol consumption, unhealthy diet, and not enough physical activity. In 2011, the World Bank said that the economic benefit of reducing cardiovascular diseases by 1% per year from 2010-2040 in China could generate more than USD10.7 trillion, equivalent to 68% of China’s real GDP in 2010. This “lifestyle disease” epidemic “causes a much greater public health threat than any other epidemic known to man,” said Shanthi Mendis, lead author of the WHO’s Chronic Diseases Prevention and Management report.
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