Preface  

作　　者：Peng AnProfessor Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences,Chinese Academy o Sciences 

出　　处：《Journal of Environmental Sciences》1991年第4期3-4,共2页环境科学学报（英文版）

摘　　要：Kaschin-Beck disease (KBD) is regarded as an endemic, chronic, high incidence and degenerative osteoarthropathie disease. The areas of endemic KBD are relatively stable and are correlated with specific geographical environments. In China, estimation of KBD patients in 1985 indicated more than 2 million people were severely affected in a broad region inhibited by over 30 million people. KBD endemic areas form a broad belt extending from northeast to southwest. The disease mostly appears in mountainous and hilly regions, and farmers are the major potentially affected ones. Hence KBD has been designated a national health priori-ty problem in China since 60’s.

关 键 词：KBD PREFACE 

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