Diet, life-style, and mortality in China: a study of the characteristics of 65 Chinese counties

This report presents data from a number of recent surveys undertaken in China including the 1983 ecological survey the 1973-1975 mortality survey and the 1984 nitrosamine survey. The chief purpose of the present monograph is simply to describe population heterogeneity in China by studying 65 rural counties and providing for each of them information on about 367 characteristics (82 standardized mortality rates from specific diseases and 285 biochemical and other characteristics chiefly from a special 1983 survey of adult blood urine diet and lifestyle in two randomly chosen villages in each of those 65 counties). (EXCERPT)