{"id":647,"date":"2016-07-27T22:01:59","date_gmt":"2011-07-27T22:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edrugstore.md\/blog\/?p=647"},"modified":"2011-07-31T17:02:15","modified_gmt":"2011-07-31T17:02:15","slug":"reduce-life-expectancy-l0727","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edrugstore.com\/blog\/current-health-news\/reduce-life-expectancy-l0727\/","title":{"rendered":"Top 4 things that reduce life expectancy"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>A new study shows four preventable health complications that are cutting people’s lives short.\u00a0 The recent study shows smoking, high blood pressure, elevated blood glucose and\u00a0obesity currently reduce life expectancy in the U.S. by 4.9 years in men and 4.1 years in women.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis study demonstrates the potential of disease prevention to not only improve health outcomes in the entire nation but also to reduce the enormous disparities in life expectancy that we see in the U.S.,\u201d said Majid Ezzati, associate professor of international health\u00a0and author\u00a0of the study.<\/p>\n

For the study the researchers used 2005 data from the National Center for Health Statistics, the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System.<\/p>\n

A press release put out by\u00a0Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington\u00a0found that a person\u2019s ethnicity and where they live is a predictor of life expectancy and how healthy a person is. Some of the findings include:<\/p>\n