The impact of a healthy lifestyle on Disability-Adjusted Life Years: a prospective cohort study
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Type
Journal Article
Abstract
The association between single health behaviours and incidence of and premature mortality from major chronic diseases, including myocardial infarction, stroke, diabetes mellitus, and cancer, has been demonstrated thoroughly. However, the association of several healthy behaviours with Disability-Adjusted Life Years (DALYs), which is a measure for total health combining Years Lost due to Disability and the Years of Life Lost due to premature mortality, has not been studied yet.
Date Issued
2015-02-27
Date Acceptance
2015-02-03
Citation
BMC Medicine, 2015, 13
ISSN
1741-7015
Publisher
BioMed Central
Journal / Book Title
BMC Medicine
Volume
13
Copyright Statement
© May et al. 2015. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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Subjects
General & Internal Medicine
11 Medical And Health Sciences
Article Number
39