{"id":48691,"date":"2022-09-21T08:45:13","date_gmt":"2022-09-20T23:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/sep\/21\/chinas-hidden-epidemics-the-preventable-diseases-that-could-reshape-a-nation"},"modified":"2022-09-21T08:45:13","modified_gmt":"2022-09-20T23:45:13","slug":"chinas-hidden-epidemics-the-preventable-diseases-that-could-reshape-a-nation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=48691","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s \u2018hidden epidemics\u2019: the preventable diseases that could reshape a nation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stratospheric economic growth since the late 1970s has brought great prosperity, along with \u2018western-style\u2019 health problems that are beginning to have a devastating impact <\/p>\n<p>China faces a health emergency from \u201chidden epidemics\u2019\u2019 of diseases such as cancer, heart trouble and diabetes that could have far-reaching social, economic and demographic consequences for the world\u2019s most populous nation, experts have warned.<\/p>\n<p>Although China imposed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jun\/14\/beijing-investigates-24-hour-bar-blamed-for-covid-outbreak\">the world\u2019s strictest lockdowns<\/a> to protect its people from Covid-19, the deadly impact from non-communicable diseases is much less well understood and threatens to kill tens of millions of Chinese in the coming decades without tougher public health policies.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/sep\/21\/chinas-hidden-epidemics-the-preventable-diseases-that-could-reshape-a-nation\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stratospheric economic growth since the late 1970s has brought great prosperity, along with \u2018western-style\u2019 health problems that are beginning to have a devastating impact China faces a health emergency from \u201chidden epidemics\u2019\u2019 of diseases such as canc&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":443,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,1484,346,771],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-diabetes","category-health","category-smoking"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/443"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48691"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48692,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48691\/revisions\/48692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}