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- Title
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.
- Authors
Danaei, Goodarz; Rimm, Eric B; Oza, Shefali; Kulkarni, Sandeep C; Murray, Christopher J L; Ezzati, Majid
- Abstract
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 life expectancy and on disparities in life expectancy and disease-specific mortality among eight subgroups of the US population (the "Eight Americas") defined on the basis of race and the location and socioeconomic characteristics of county of residence, in 2005.
- Publication
PLoS medicine, 2010, Vol 7, Issue 3, pe1000248
- ISSN
1549-1676
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1371/journal.pmed.1000248