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Letters to Editor


Nature Medicine 4, 1209 - 1210 (1998)
doi:10.1038/3169

Cardiovascular disease in China

Tsung O. Cheng1

  1. Professor of Medicine The George Washington University Washington, D.C.

To the editor—You recently discussed a new report from the US Institute of Medicine showing that cardiovascular disease is increasing in developing countries1. I wish to echo concern that cardiovascular disease has been increasing in the past few decades in China, the largest and most populous developing country in the world.