Robert F. Reynolds

TL;DR: It is indicated that a large proportion of Chinese adults have the metabolic syndrome and that overweight has become an important public health problem in China, and there is an urgent need to develop national strategies for the prevention, detection, and treatment of overweight and the metabolic Syndrome.

TL;DR: The results indicate that hypertension is highly prevalent in China and the percentages of those with hypertension who are aware, treated, and controlled are unacceptably low, underscore the urgent need to develop national strategies to improve prevention, detection, and treatment of hypertension in China.

TL;DR: The increased risk of cardiac arrest and ventricular arrhythmia in patients with treated schizophrenia could be due to the disease or its treatment, and the risk with thioridazine was no worse than that with haloperidol.

TL;DR: Prevention, detection, and treatment of CVD risk factor clustering should be an important component of a national strategy to reduce the increasing burden ofCVD in China.

TL;DR: Among patients with schizophrenia, cardiovascular risk was inversely associated with intensity of use of antipsychotic drugs, suggesting that the observed risks may not be due to a simple or direct effect of drugs.