Estimates of global and regional potential health gains from reducing multiple major risk factors.

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The Preventable Causes of Death in the United States: Comparative Risk Assessment of Dietary, Lifestyle, and Metabolic Risk Factors (2009, background): “, some IHD deaths may be prevented by reducing SBP, LDL cholesterol, smoking, or combinations of these risks [46].”
Millions dead: how do we know and what does it mean? Methods used in the comparative risk assessment of household air pollution. (2014, background): “By assuming independence and little correlation between risk factors with impacts on the same diseases, however, the total impact can be calculated to be less than the sum on the basis of a straightforward calculation using the associated population-attributable fractions (PAFs) (10).”
Eight Americas: Investigating Mortality Disparities across Races, Counties, and Race-Counties in the United States (2006, background): “This is particularly relevant for combinations of risk factors that together account for large proportions of many chronic diseases [41,42].”
Mortality from ischaemic heart disease by country, region, and age: Statistics from World Health Organisation and United Nations (2013, background): “such as decreased exposure to tobacco smoke [21] and improvement in primary prevention strategies [22,23] (e.”