Experts' Consultation on Coronary Heart Disease

Author: Hu Dayi
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Publish Date: 2004-01-01
Features: Health is a topic of concern to all humanity, but it has different connotations during different periods of economic development. In our country, in the past, people's primary need was for food and clothing due to living conditions. Since the reform and opening-up, with the rapid development of the economy, the food and clothing issue for the country's 1.2 billion people has been basically resolved, and we are entering and building a moderately prosperous society. Particularly with the continuous advancement of science and technology, as well as the reform and improvement of the medical insurance system for urban and rural workers and the rural cooperative medical care system, people are increasingly realizing the necessity of understanding medical and health science. Removing superstition, ignorance, and backwardness, while promoting civilized, scientific, and healthy lifestyles, paying attention to physical health, and improving quality of life are gradually becoming the social trends of a civilized, scientific, and progressive society.
With the continuous improvement of people's living standards and the extension of life expectancy, the incidence and mortality rates of cardiovascular diseases are also increasing, severely threatening the health and lives of middle-aged and elderly people. The prevention and treatment of hypertension and coronary heart disease have become issues of concern to the entire society. For a long time, due to incorrect traditional concepts or ignorance, there have been certain unscientific and scientifically illiterate misconceptions in the understanding of some patients with hypertension and coronary heart disease. To conquer hypertension and coronary heart disease, it is essential to let people understand the risk factors and pathogenesis of hypertension and coronary heart disease, master their prevention and treatment methods, strengthen self-care awareness, and change unhealthy lifestyles, thereby effectively reducing the incidence and mortality rates of cardiovascular diseases.