China officially tops one billion mobile subscribers

We heard last year that China was approaching 900 million mobile phone subscribers, and it looks like it's now finally hit the big one. The country's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology confirmed today that, as of the end of February, there were more than a billion mobile subscribers in the country (1.01 billion, to be specific). As the AFP notes, that's individual subscriptions, which includes users with more than one phone, but any way you slice it that's a whole lot of cellphone users. Of those, 144 million are on 3G networks, which is fully double the number from April of 2011. Not surprisingly, much of that growth comes at the expense of landline phones, which have dropped a further 828,000 in the first two months of the year to 284.3 million. Internet use also continues to be on the upswing, with more than half a billion people having internet access of some sort, and 154.96 million having broadband access (up nearly five million during those same two months).

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Children who develop asthma have lung function deficits as neonates, study suggests

ScienceDaily (Mar. 30, 2012) ? Children who develop asthma by age seven have deficits in lung function and increased bronchial responsiveness as neonates, a new study from researchers in Denmark suggests.

"Previous research on the relationship between neonatal lung function and the development of asthma has been conflicting," said lead author Hans Bisgaard, MD, DMSci, professor of pediatrics at the University of Copenhagen and head of the Danish Pediatric Asthma Centre. "Our study shows that children with asthma by age seven already had significant airflow deficits and increased bronchial responsiveness as neonates. Lung function deficits also progressed throughout childhood in our study, suggesting a potential opportunity for early intervention."

The findings were published online ahead of print publication in the American Thoracic Society's American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine.

The prospective study enrolled a birth cohort of 411 at-risk children of asthmatic mothers. Spirometry was performed at one month in 403 (98 percent) children and again at age seven in 317 (77 percent).

Significant neonatal airflow deficits, as measured by forced expiratory flow at 50 percent% of vital capacity and forced expiratory volume after 0.5 seconds, were observed among the 14 percent of children who developed asthma by age seven. Bronchial responsiveness to methacholine, which provokes narrowing of the airways, was also significantly associated with the development of asthma. Neonatal airway reactivity was a stronger predictor of asthma than neonatal lung function.

"We found that approximately 40% of the airflow deficit that was associated with asthma in our study was present at birth, while 60% developed through early childhood along with the disease," noted Dr. Bisgaard. "This indicates that both prenatal and early childhood mechanisms are potential intervention targets for the prevention of asthma."

The study used a homogenous study sample, which might limit extrapolation of the results to other populations.

"It seems that lung function changes associated with asthma occur very early in life and maybe even before birth," concluded Dr. Bisgaard. "This may explain the lack of effect from early intervention with inhaled corticosteroids and should direct research into the pathogenesis and prevention of asthma towards the earliest phases of life."

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Danish consumers are attracting attention in a new international study on healthy heating. More than 3,000 consumers from five European countries were asked whether they are willing to accept national economic interventions to promote healthy eating habits. The results are unequivocal:

Danes have the most positive attitude towards economic interventions within the nutritional area, and are also willing to pay more to eat more healthily, says PhD student Jessica Aschemann-Witzel from Aarhus University, Business and Social Sciences, who is one of the architects of the study.

As many as 70% of Danes participating in the study are prepared to pay more tax to get healthier food and more information on what constitutes healthy food. In the other participating countries, the same figure was approx. 20% or less.

Danes often have more faith in the public authorities and are used to paying high taxes, and therefore they are not as dismissive to changes in these areas as other populations, says Jessica Aschemann-Witzel.

The countries covered by the study are the UK, Italy, Belgium, Denmark and Poland.

The results will be discussed at an international workshop in March 2012, which is being organised by Aarhus University. Here, representatives from various ministries, NGOs (Non-governmental Organisations) and universities will participate.

At the workshop, Denmark's representatives, Associate Professor Tino Bech-Larsen and Assistant Professor Jessica Aschemann-Witzel from Aarhus University, Business and Social Sciences, will focus on why the responses from Danish participants differed to those from participants in the other countries, and what this clear Danish attitude may mean for future health policies in Denmark.

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• The study is called the EATWELL study, and is part of the larger EATWELL project, which is funded by the EU Commission.
• The study is based on more than 3,000 random interviews carried out online, of which approx. 600 were with Danes.
• EATWELL is an EU FP7-financed project, which runs from April 2009 to September 2012.
• The EATWELL consortium consists of teams from the University of Reading, University of London (SOAS), Aarhus University, Ghent University, University of Bologna, The National Institute of Research on Food and Nutrition of Italy, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Kraft Foods R&D and EACA (European Association of Communications Agencies).
• More information about the project can be found at www.eatwellproject.eu

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Contact: Jessica Aschemann-Witzel
jeaw@asb.dk
45-87-16-52-17
Aarhus University

Danish consumers are attracting attention in a new international study on healthy heating. More than 3,000 consumers from five European countries were asked whether they are willing to accept national economic interventions to promote healthy eating habits. The results are unequivocal:

Danes have the most positive attitude towards economic interventions within the nutritional area, and are also willing to pay more to eat more healthily, says PhD student Jessica Aschemann-Witzel from Aarhus University, Business and Social Sciences, who is one of the architects of the study.

As many as 70% of Danes participating in the study are prepared to pay more tax to get healthier food and more information on what constitutes healthy food. In the other participating countries, the same figure was approx. 20% or less.

Danes often have more faith in the public authorities and are used to paying high taxes, and therefore they are not as dismissive to changes in these areas as other populations, says Jessica Aschemann-Witzel.

The countries covered by the study are the UK, Italy, Belgium, Denmark and Poland.

The results will be discussed at an international workshop in March 2012, which is being organised by Aarhus University. Here, representatives from various ministries, NGOs (Non-governmental Organisations) and universities will participate.

At the workshop, Denmark's representatives, Associate Professor Tino Bech-Larsen and Assistant Professor Jessica Aschemann-Witzel from Aarhus University, Business and Social Sciences, will focus on why the responses from Danish participants differed to those from participants in the other countries, and what this clear Danish attitude may mean for future health policies in Denmark.

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FACTS

• The study is called the EATWELL study, and is part of the larger EATWELL project, which is funded by the EU Commission.
• The study is based on more than 3,000 random interviews carried out online, of which approx. 600 were with Danes.
• EATWELL is an EU FP7-financed project, which runs from April 2009 to September 2012.
• The EATWELL consortium consists of teams from the University of Reading, University of London (SOAS), Aarhus University, Ghent University, University of Bologna, The National Institute of Research on Food and Nutrition of Italy, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Kraft Foods R&D and EACA (European Association of Communications Agencies).
• More information about the project can be found at www.eatwellproject.eu

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