The preventable causes of death in the United States: comparative risk assessment of dietary, lifestyle, and metabolic risk factors.

<h4>Background</h4>Knowledge of the number of deaths caused by risk factors is needed for health policy and priority setting. Our aim was to estimate the mortality effects of the following 12 modifiable dietary, lifestyle, and metabolic risk factors in the United States (US) using consis...

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Main Authors: Goodarz Danaei, Eric L Ding, Dariush Mozaffarian, Ben Taylor, Jürgen Rehm, Christopher J L Murray, Majid Ezzati
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2009-04-01
Series:PLoS Medicine
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/19399161/?tool=EBI