The Promise of Prevention: The Effects of Four Preventable Risk Factors on National Life Expectancy and Life Expectancy Disparities by Race and County in the United States

BACKGROUND: There has been substantial research on psychosocial and health care determinants of health disparities in the United States (US) but less on the role of modifiable risk factors. We estimated the effects of smoking, high blood pressure, elevated blood glucose, and adiposity on national li...

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Autores principales: Danaei, Goodarz, Rimm, Eric B., Oza, Shefali, Kulkarni, Sandeep C., Murray, Christopher J. L., Ezzati, Majid
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2010
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2843596/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20351772
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1000248

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2843596/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20351772
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1000248

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