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Race, Wealth May Impact How Long You LiveHigh Blood Pressure, High Blood Sugar Levels Also Contribute to Lower Life Expectancy Source: CBS News Posted: Friday, March 26, 2010(WebMD) Smoking, high blood pressure, high blood sugar levels, and obesity -- four preventable risk factors -- are robbing years from the lives of Americans. The new findings -- almost five years from men, and just over four years from women -- suggest that disparities in these risk factors help explain why some ethnic and socioeconomic groups have lower life expectancies. Our results demonstrate that a small number of risk factors for chronic disease account for a noticeable part of the disparities in life expectancy in the U.S., with the largest contributions from smoking and high blood pressure, say the researchers, led by Majid Ezzati, PhD, an associate professor of International Health at the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston. The findings appear in the journal PLoS Medicine.
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