Different worlds, different tasks for health promotion: comparisons of health risk profiles in Chinese and Finnish rural people.

Abstract:

:The aim of this study was to compare cardiovascular risk factors of working-aged people in Chinese and Finnish rural villages. The surveys were carried out in 1989 in Tianjin, China, and in Kuopio, Finland. Altogether, 897 Chinese inhabitants and 795 Finnish subjects participated in the surveys. Health behaviours were recorded, and height, weight, blood pressure, heart rate and serum lipids were measured. Generally Finns had a significantly higher mean body-mass index, systolic and diastolic blood pressures, and serum total cholesterol, low-density lipoprotein cholesterol, and total cholesterol/high-density lipoprotein ratio than the Chinese. However, no difference was seen between Chinese and Finnish women in diastolic blood pressure and serum triglycerides. Lower high-density lipoprotein cholesterol levels were observed in Finnish men than in Chinese men, whereas a higher mean level was shown in Finnish women than in Chinese women. There were significantly higher mean heart rates and prevalence of smoking in Chinese than in Finnish populations. More people who were overweight, obese and hypertensive were found in the Finnish than in the Chinese populations. Most of the Finns had two or more cardiovascular risk factors compared with the Chinese, the majority of whom were in the group with less than two risk factors. In conclusion, the risk profiles are clearly somewhat different in these two countries. A major task for the Chinese health policy and health care system is to decrease smoking and to prevent obesity and hypertension. In Finland, the biggest task seems to be the reduction of weight and lipid abnormalities, and the prevention of hypertension.

journal_name

Health Promot Int

authors

Hu G,Pekkarinen H,Halonen P,Hänninen O,Tian H,Guo Z,Kumpusalo E

doi

10.1093/heapro/16.4.315

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2001-12-01 00:00:00

pages

315-20

issue

4

eissn

0957-4824

issn

1460-2245

journal_volume

16

pub_type

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