[Strategy on the prevention and treatment of chronic diseases among residents in Dongcheng District, Beijing].
Chronic diseases, in particular, circulatory diseases characterized by high mortality, morbidity, and lack of special treatment have become serious problems to the residents living in the Beijing communities. To learn the above mentioned diseases among people at the community level and to investigate treatment and preventive method concerned studies on chronic circulatory system diseases among people living in communities in Dongcheng where few disease were under special control studies were carried out between 1981 and 1997. We found that the studied residents who had received and adopted a series of preventive measures as health education, giving up smoking, reducing alcohol and salt consumption, diet balance and practicing physical exercises, had greatly improved their health condition. Because of the positive results, we addressed some long-termed suggestions on the treatment and prevention for chronic patients with circulatory system diseases which is believed to have established a solid ground for the future.