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

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