Exams risk to high school kids’ health

Nearly 90 percent of the capital's high school students have some kind of health problem, according to Beijing health authorities, which have blamed intensive study for examinations on the continuous decline in the health of high school students in recent years.

The lack of public attention to this issue has caused it to become an ongoing problem, the Beijing Physical Examination Center told the Global Times Tuesday.

The center, which comes under Beijing Health Bureau, released the Beijing Physical Examination Statistics Report for 2011 on Monday.

The study focused on the increase in the numbers of people affected by nearsightedness, blood pressure problems, and obesity, which all witnessed a rise to some extent.

Obesity is becoming a pressing problem in the teen population, the report said.

The report said that only 13 percent of high school graduates were in perfect health, a figure that has not changed much in recent years. The center examined over 80,000 high school graduates in 2011 for the report.

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