Preventing Disability: The Influence Of Modifiable Risk Factors On State And National Disability Prevalence.

ABSTRACT: Disability levels in the United States declined during the 1980s and 1990s, but these declines stalled more recently. Using data for 2013 from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, we estimated the percentages of national and state disability that could be prevented through reductions in five modifiable health risk factors associated with disability: cigarette smoking, obesity, diabetes, high cholesterol, and hypertension. Taking into account risk-factor prevalence and the association between each risk factor and disability, we evaluated the fraction of disability preventable if risk factors were reduced under two scenarios: complete elimination of risk factors and reduction in all states to the lowest levels observed in states. If all five risk factors were eliminated, 53 percen

SUBMITTER: Mehta NK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6668338 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature