Table 6

Burden of disease and risk factors worldwide:year 2002 [1]

Risk factor
Deaths (× 103)
% of total death
DALYs (× 103)
% of total DALY

Hypertension
7141
12.8
64270
04.5
Tobacco
4907
08.8
59081
04.1
High cholesterol
4415
07.9
40437
02.8
Low fruit & veg
2726
04.9
26662
01.9
Overweight
2591
04.6
33415
02.3
Alcohol
1804
03.2
58323
04.0
Phys. inactivity
1922
03.4
19092
01.3

Boutayeb and Boutayeb International Journal for Equity in Health 2005 4:2   doi:10.1186/1475-9276-4-2