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A water delivery man smokes while stuck in traffic in Beijing.
"Our study used a computer model to forecast future cardiovascular disease in Chinese adults, and is the first to project the individual and combined effects of major risk factor trends on a national scale," the Columbia University professor added.
Based on risk factor surveys of Chinese adults (aged 35-84) since economic reforms in the 1980s, the researchers made projections on future trends in blood pressure, cholesterol, smoking, diabetes and body weight in the Asian giant.
They found that although smoking had declined by more than 10 percent in China since the mid 1980s, 62 percent of Chinese men still smoke, while 49 percent of nonsmokers, mostly women, are exposed to passive smoke.
The study was published in an American Heart Association journal.
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Based on risk factor surveys of Chinese adults (aged 35-84) since economic reforms in the 1980s, the researchers made projections on future trends in blood pressure, cholesterol, smoking, diabetes and body weight in the Asian giant.
They found that although smoking had declined by more than 10 percent in China since the mid 1980s, 62 percent of Chinese men still smoke, while 49 percent of nonsmokers, mostly women, are exposed to passive smoke.
The study was published in an American Heart Association journal.
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