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Being overweight overtakes tobacco smoking as the leading disease risk factor
Being overweight overtakes tobacco smoking as the leading disease risk factor in 2024 Living with overweight or obesity has overtaken tobacco smoking as the leading risk factor contributing to disease burden in 2024, according to a new report from the Australian Institute of Health and Welf
This report also provides estimates of how much of this disease burden can be attributed to 20 individual risk factors such as alcohol use, physical inactivity, poor diet, overweight or obesity and tobacco smoking. This report also provides estimates of how much of this disease burden can be attributed to 20 individual risk factors such as alcohol use, physical inactivity, poor diet, overweight or obesity and tobacco smoking. ‘Australians lost an estimated 5.8 million years of healthy life due to living with disease and dying prematurely in 2024,’ said AIHW spokesperson Ms Michelle Gourley.
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