For research by Dr. Barry Popkin, WR Kenan Jr. Distinguished Professor of nutrition at UNC’s Gillings School of Global Public Health and Chinese researchers, used data from the most extensive study of its kind in China, called China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS). The results have emerged online and na Obesity Reviews. China has experienced an unprecedented experience economic growth over the past two decades, but the study concludes that China has seen equally dramatic changes in body weight, eating habits, and physical activity levels at the same time. Scientists after randomly selected trials representing 56 percent. China’s population of 2009, found a large increase in excess weight and risk cardio-metabolic diseases. The changes in the Chinese diet, weight and cardiovascular risk among children aged 7 and over are unprecedented. These figures underscore the enormous burden that China’s healthcare system will have to deal with if nothing changes, said Popkin. According to the results of the UNC-CCDC research in China, in the age group 7 – 14 years, 1,9 percent. children suffer from diabetesand 14,9 percent. diagnosed stage pre-diabetes. Scientists noticed high levels of glycosylated hemoglobin, or glycohemoglobin, in the blood of the studied children. There are many fractions of glycosylated hemoglobin, but only the HbA1c fraction is useful in the diagnosis of diabetes. The results show a high burden of chronic disease from an early age. 1,7 million Chinese children between the ages of 7 and 18 have diabetes and 27,7 million are potentially prediabetic. In addition, more than a third of children under 18 had high levels of at least one cardio-metabolic risk factor.said Popkin. Comparing this data with the situation in the United States, the researchers found that the incidence of diabetes and inflammation among Chinese children was higher than that observed in other Asian countries or the USA.
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