New risk score identifies link between lifestyle risk factors and mortality

Tuesday, December 8, 2015 - 21:12 in Health & Medicine

A new lifestyle risk score based on six health behaviors identified two new risk factors (sedentary behavior and sleep) that can be used in addition to traditional risk factors, such as smoking and excessive alcohol use to predict risk of mortality.

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