Over 230 million patients with cardiovascular diseases in China

Beijing, May 16 (Zhang Yujie, Fu Zimei) Recently, the reporter learned from the "Healthy, New Life" professional population cardiovascular disease comprehensive intervention and management project kick-off meeting: China's cardiovascular disease (coronary heart disease, hypertension, heart The number of people who suffer from a disease or stroke is 230 million. One in five adults is a cardiovascular disease, and the number of hypertensive patients reaches 200 million. In the occupational population, the prehypertension group of people with hypertension reaches more than 1/3. Cardiovascular disease has become a major disease threatening the health of our residents.

The data in the "China Cardiovascular Diseases Report 2010" shows that about 3 million people die of cardiovascular diseases each year in China, accounting for about 40% of all death causes, ranking first in all causes of death. Professor Chen Weiwei, director of the Department of Cardiovascular Disease Prevention and Research Center of the Ministry of Health and Fuwai Cardiovascular Hospital, said that the relevant survey data in 2007 showed that the prevalence of hypertension in the occupational population in Beijing alone reached 30%.