Publisher's Synopsis
The People's Republic of China is a large and heterogeneous country and as such has a remarkably high degree of geographical localization in disease mortality rates. This book documents the results from a survey looking at patterns of mortality from various diseases in each of 65 mostly rural counties. Over 367 dietary and lifestyle characteristics were measured, including a variety of nutritinal factors in blood, urine and food. In one of the surveys reported here, randomly selected subjects, aged 35-64, provided blood samples, were interviewed about their dietary, smoking and reproductive histories and provided representative food samples for analysis. In another, randomly selected households participated in a 3-day weighed food survey. A primary objective of the project as a whole was to provide descriptive information. Much of the data is simply listed; each listing accompanied by a map showing the geographical distribution of high and low values of the variable. Correlaton co-efficients between many hundreds of variables have been calculated, yielding over 100,000 coefficients in all.;The data is presented to allow identification of the huge number of relationships which exist between the ways people live and the way they die.
