The Preventable Causes of Death in the United States: Comparative Risk Assessment of Dietary, Lifestyle, and Metabolic Risk Factors

Goodarz Danaei; Eric L. Ding; Dariush Mozaffarian; Ben Taylor; Jürgen Rehm; Christopher J L Murray; Majid Ezzati

doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1000058

Abstract

Smoking and high blood pressure, which both have effective interventions, are responsible for the largest number of deaths in the US. Other dietary, lifestyle, and metabolic risk factors for chronic diseases also cause a substantial number of deaths in the US.

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MedicineEnvironmental healthOverweightObesityPopulationEpidemiologyConfoundingRisk factorNational Health and Nutrition Examination SurveyDiseaseDemographyInternal medicine

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Year: 2009
Type: article
Volume: 6
Issue: 4
Pages: e1000058-e1000058
Citations: 2846
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                                    Goodarz Danaei, 
                                
                                    Eric L. Ding, 
                                
                                    Dariush Mozaffarian
                                
                                et al.
                            
                            (2009). 
                            The Preventable Causes of Death in the United States: Comparative Risk Assessment of Dietary, Lifestyle, and Metabolic Risk Factors. 
                            PLoS Medicine
                            , 6
                            (4)
                            , e1000058-e1000058.
                            https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1000058
                        

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DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1000058