Cardiovascular disease risk factors are highly prevalent in the office-working population of Nanjing in China.

Objective: To establish a profile of the modifiable cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors in the office-working population of Nanjing, China.

Background: With increasing modernization in China, CVD is now common among Chinese. Relevant information on the prevalence of CVD risk factors in China is, however, limited.

Glucose intolerance and cardiovascular risk factors in Hong Kong: data from two occupation-based cross-sectional surveys.

Aims: To examine the distribution of plasma glucose and related cardiovascular risk factors in two occupation-based cross-sectional surveys in a Chinese ethnic population.

Methods: Two cross-sectional surveys in a Hong Kong working population. In 1990, 1496 participants aged 18-66 years underwent an OGTT, anthropometric, and other biochemical measures.