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A new study led by researchers at Harvard School of Public Health reports that hundreds of thousands of deaths each year are due to diet and lifestyle.
\nBelow are the numbers of annual deaths in the United States due to each of the individual risk factors examined, all of which are preventable. (Source: Harvard Science Foundation)<\/em>
\n\u2022 Smoking: 467,000
\n\u2022 High blood pressure: 395,000
\n\u2022 Overweight-obesity: 216,000
\n\u2022 Inadequate physical activity and inactivity: 191,000
\n\u2022 High blood sugar: 190,000
\n\u2022 High LDL cholesterol: 113,000
\n\u2022 High dietary salt: 102,000
\n\u2022 Low dietary omega-3 fatty acids: 84,000
\n\u2022 High dietary trans-fatty acids: 82,000
\n\u2022 Alcohol use: 64,000 (alcohol use averted a balance of 26,000 deaths from heart disease, stroke, and diabetes, because moderate drinking reduces risk of these diseases. But these deaths were outweighed by 90,000 alcohol-related deaths from traffic and other injuries, violence, cancers, and a range of other diseases).
\n\u2022 Low intake of fruits and vegetables: 58,000
\n\u2022 Low dietary polyunsaturated fatty acids: 15,000
\n“The large magnitude of the numbers for many of these risks made us pause,” said Goodarz Danaei, a doctoral student at HSPH and the lead author of the study. “To have hundreds of thousands of premature deaths caused by these modifiable risk factors is shocking and should motivate a serious look at whether our public health system has sufficient capacity to implement interventions and whether it is currently focusing on the right set of interventions.” Majid Ezzati, associate professor of international health at HSPH, is the study’s senior author.
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