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

By G. Danaei, E. Ding, D. Mozaffarian, B. Taylor, J. Rehm, Christopher J. L. Murray, M. Ezzati. PLoS Medicine, 2009

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Majid Ezzati and colleagues examine US data on risk factor exposures and disease-specific mortality and find that smoking and hypertension, which both have effective interventions, are responsible for the largest number of deaths.

Subfields: Nutrition and Dietetics, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

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In Nutrition and Dietetics

1. D. Mozaffarian
2. Simin Liu
3. A. Jemal
4. J. Despres
5. M. Ezzati
6. C. Lawes
7. P. Calder

In Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

1. D. Mozaffarian
2. R. Siegel
3. R. Micha
4. K. Miller
5. Simin Liu
6. A. Jemal
7. Susan Michie
8. J. Despres

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• The Age-Specific Quantitative Effects of Metabolic Risk Factors on Cardiovascular Diseases and Diabetes: A Pooled Analysis (2013, background): “The theoretical minimum-risk exposure distribution (TMRED) is an alternative exposure distribution that aims to measure the effects of all non-optimal levels of exposure in a comparable way across risk factors [2,3,35,36].”
• Epidemiology of coronary heart disease and acute coronary syndrome. (2016, background): “bad nutrition practices (11) (lost of traditional diet habits in new-industrial cultures) are leading to an increase of prevalence in most countries (12).”
• Dietary and Policy Priorities for Cardiovascular Disease, Diabetes, and Obesity – A Comprehensive Review (2016, positive): “Across the population, alcohol produces net harms because of the increased risk of cancers, liver disease, cardiomyopathy, accidents, violence, homicides, and suicides.(1,294) Thus, alcohol intake should not be recommended as a means to reduce CVD risk.”