Top 5 CV Risk Factors Account for 50% of CV Deaths
July 6, 2015
"If diabetes, obesity, hypertension, high cholesterol, and cigarette smoking could be eliminated in the U.S., how much would cardiovascular mortality risk drop?
If you guessed by about 50%, you're right, according to an epidemiological study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine."
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