Xiaoguang Yang

TL;DR: In this article, a Bayesian hierarchical model was used to estimate the prevalence of hypertension and the proportion of people with hypertension who had a previous diagnosis (detection), who were taking medication for hypertension (treatment), and whose hypertension was controlled to below 140/90 mm Hg (control).

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used data for exposure to risk factors by country, age group, and sex from pooled analyses of population-based health surveys and obtained relative risks for the eff ects of risk factors on cause-specifi c mortality from meta-analyses of large prospective studies.

TL;DR: Fetal exposure to the severe Chinese famine during fetal life and childhood with the risk of hyperglycemia and type 2 diabetes in adulthood appears to be exacerbated by a nutritionally rich environment in later life.

TL;DR: Chinese people were currently suffering from both problems on nutrition related issues and burdens of diseases which were characterized in nutrient deficiencies and overconsumption, malnutrition and noncommunicable conditions associated with overcons consumption and inappropriate diet.

TL;DR: Girls in South Korea, Vietnam, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and some central Asian countries and boys in central and western Europe had the healthiest changes in anthropometric status over the past 3·5 decades because, compared with children and adolescents in other countries, they had a much larger gain in height than they did in BMI.