TABLE 4—
Top 20 Health Problems Selected by Panelists, and Proportions of Panelists Who Selected Them, by Panel and Round of Survey: China, 2015–2016
| Final Panel (n = 70) |
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| Health Problem | Initial Panel (n = 95), % (Rank) | Round 1 % (Rank) | Round 2 % (Rank) | Difference Between 2 Panels, % | Difference Between 2 Rounds, % |
| Diabetes mellitus | 73 (1)a | 69 (2)a | 100 (1) | −4 | +31 |
| CHD/MI | 58 (7) | 56 (6) | 97 (2) | −2 | +41 |
| Hypertension | 60 (6) | 54 (8) | 96 (3) | −6 | +41 |
| Lung cancer | 73 (1) | 71 (1) | 93 (4) | −2 | +21 |
| Stroke | 56 (8) | 53 (10) | 91 (5) | −3 | +39 |
| Air pollution | 47 (12) | 49 (12) | 90 (6) | +2 | +41 |
| Emerging infectious diseases | 65 (4) | 69 (2) | 84 (7) | +4 | +16 |
| HIV/AIDS | 62 (5) | 64 (5) | 80 (8) | +2 | +16 |
| Hepatitis | 67 (3) | 67 (4) | 79 (9) | 0 | +11 |
| Water pollution | 37 (19) | 40 (18) | 77 (10) | +3 | +37 |
| Liver cancer | 56 (8) | 53 (10) | 73 (11) | −3 | +20 |
| Smoking | 54 (10) | 56 (6) | 71 (12) | +2 | +16 |
| Depression | 53 (11) | 54 (8) | 70 (13) | +1 | +16 |
| Alzheimer’s disease | 46 (13) | 41 (16) | 70 (13) | −5 | +29 |
| Contamination of fooda | 43 (15) | 44 (14) | 61 (15) | +1 | +17 |
| Road injury | 41 (17) | 41 (16) | 59 (16) | 0 | +17 |
| Unhealthy dietb | 37 (19) | 39 (19) | 59 (16) | +2 | +20 |
| Obesity and overweight | 33 (23) | 29 (26) | 59 (16) | −4 | +30 |
| Breast cancer | 42 (16) | 43 (15) | 54 (19) | +1 | +11 |
| Tuberculosis | 45 (14) | 46 (13) | 50 (20) | +1 | +4 |
| Mean | –0.5 | 23.7 | |||
Note. CHD/MI = coronary heart disease/myocardial infarction.
a
Contamination with pesticides, antibiotics, and hormone residues.
b
High dietary intake of saturated fat, trans-fats, and salt, and low intake of fruit.