’97海内外高龄化社会与中医药学术研讨会在南京召开，出席会议的有300多位国内外中医药专家和学者．会议对当今世界老年疾病由“贫困型”转向“富贵型”所出现的高血压、心血管疾病、糖尿病、肥胖症一类的老年常见病，一致达成共识，认为中国传统医学对高龄化社会出现的这类疾 The ’97 National Academic Conference on Ageing Society and Chinese Medicine held in Nanjing was attended by more than 300 domestic and foreign experts and scholars in Chinese medicine. The meeting unanimously reached consensus on the elderly diseases such as hypertension, cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, and obesity that appear in the world from the “poverty” to the “rich” type of diseases in today’s world. It is believed that Chinese traditional medicine has emerged in an aging society. Such diseases