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China is experiencing a surge in deaths from heart disease. It is one of the worlds major hot spot for heart disease.
Many research papers blame a rise in Chinese cholesterol and fast food consumption for the dramatic increase in heart disease in China.
So what is their cholesterol? To make a long story short, it looks mostly like the rest of the world, sometimes lower, except China has a worse heart disease problem than the rest of the world
While researchers blame the rise in consumption of fast food for china's heart problems, lets keep in mind the USA experienced a decline in heart attack deaths while consumption of fast food skyrocketed.
China is experiencing a huge problem with growing air pollution. Something that gets ignored in many research papers. Could this be related to heart attacks?
Death rates from heart attacks declined in the USA when we began to clean up our air. On the other hand, death rates increased in china as their growing demand for energy built one coal plant after another. The air got dirtier and death rates from both cancer and heart disease began to skyrocket.
*Chinese Mean Cholesterol =186, heart disease high, filthy air.
*Greenland Inuit mean cholesterol = 240, heart disease low, clean air.
Many research papers blame a rise in Chinese cholesterol and fast food consumption for the dramatic increase in heart disease in China.
So what is their cholesterol? To make a long story short, it looks mostly like the rest of the world, sometimes lower, except China has a worse heart disease problem than the rest of the world
While researchers blame the rise in consumption of fast food for china's heart problems, lets keep in mind the USA experienced a decline in heart attack deaths while consumption of fast food skyrocketed.
China is experiencing a huge problem with growing air pollution. Something that gets ignored in many research papers. Could this be related to heart attacks?
Death rates from heart attacks declined in the USA when we began to clean up our air. On the other hand, death rates increased in china as their growing demand for energy built one coal plant after another. The air got dirtier and death rates from both cancer and heart disease began to skyrocket.
*Chinese Mean Cholesterol =186, heart disease high, filthy air.
*Greenland Inuit mean cholesterol = 240, heart disease low, clean air.
http://cargocycling.org/2009/06/air-pollution-in-china.html
Looks lovely doesn't it? The fine toxic particulate in that photo goes into the lungs and into the blood stream.