心脑血管病不再是富人病 高血压、冠心病和脑卒中在过去被称为是富人病,这并不确切。因为许多富裕发达国家近些年加强了预防保健,使心脑血管病的发病率和死亡率都已明显下降。把这几种病划为老年病范围也不完全合适,因为这些病的发生是从青少年开始,也有不少中年人患病。过去认为城市人口和知识分子最多发心脑血管病,事实也并非如此,劳动人民同样易发心脑血管病,而且近年 Cardiovascular and cerebrovascular disease is no longer a problem for the rich. Hypertension, coronary heart disease and stroke have in the past been referred to as the rich disease, which is not clear. Because many rich and developed countries have stepped up preventive health care in recent years, the incidence and mortality of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases have dropped significantly. It is also not entirely appropriate to classify these types of illnesses as a range of geriatric diseases because these diseases start with young people and many middle-aged people are ill. In the past, the urban population and intellectuals believed that cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases were the most frequent. This is not the case. The working people are also susceptible to cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. In recent years,