Nearly 2.5 million Americans die each year. Researchers determined that tobacco smoking is responsible for 467,000 of those, followed by high blood pressure contributing 395,000 deaths, overweight-obesity, physical inactivity and high blood glucose levels each accounting for between 190,000 to 216,000 each.
PositiveTip: How are you doing with your lifestyle choices? Each of these diseases results in large part from the choices people make.