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The <2012 The Health White Paper of Urban Resident> was announced, summarizing a few health concerns of the people living in the cities. The targeted population ranges from eighteen years old to eighty years old, and the time period is from August 2012 to January 2013. The effective sample volume of the survey is 68.7 million.

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Chronic Disease

Most of the patients with chronic disease are in the group of age 35~65, covering overweight, obesity, dyslipidemia, and hypertension. There is a trend that the chronic diseases happen more frequent to the younger people than before. Besides, people pay little attention to preventing the diseases development, and wait till it comes to them and go to see the doctors. The archiater of the China Health Education Center Tian Xiangyang explains that it is related to the non-healthy living style to some extent, such as consuming too food that are rich in salt, fat, and calories, lacking of exercise, etc. The specialists suggest that the urban residents should keep exercise at least twenty minutes, which is of the great help of preventing chronic disease and releasing stress. People may consider walking to work, climbing the stairs, doing housework. 

Dehydration

The recommends that people should consume 1200 ml water. The survey shows that almost two third of people have less than the number. The situation is even worse of the people who work in the outdoor, especially the taxi driver. The long term dehydration may be harmful to the cognitive competence, causing constipation and urinary tract infection. In the group of 25~ 60 years old, they rely on the beverages and the coffee too much, up to 39% and 33%. It is not recommended that replace the water with other beverages. 

Home Living Style Disease

The Home Living Style Disease means that a family who live together may get the similar diseases. Most of them have hypertension, hyperlipemia, hyperglycemia, gastritis and cancers. Comparing with the genetic disease, the home living style disease brings more harm to the family and the relatives. A family is the cell of the society, and should play a role in improving the healthy living style and support each other.

Emotion Sub-healthy

It is also indicated in the report that around 40 percent of people have the emotion sub-healthy, less than 30 percent of people feel happiness. It is obvious that the stress from workplace, the weak emotion relationship between persons, and the malformed attitude toward to wealth and gain make people not feeling happiness. To establish a tolerant and peaceful mind to the live, and build up a good relationship are a good way to get rid of the stress, and maintain healthy.