This paper profiles the Dongfeng-Tongji cohort study of retired workers in China, aimed at studying the burden of chronic non-communicable diseases.
China has seen rapid socio-economic and epidemiolo-gical changes over the past several decades. Economicgrowth plus shifts in environment, lifestyles and diethave increased life expectancy, but they have also ledto a higher burden of chronic, non-communicablediseases. Stroke, coronary heart disease (CHD), cancerand diabetes account for 80% of the deaths and 70%of the disability-adjusted life-years lost in China.
Wang et al. (Tue,) studied this question.