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Thursday, November 12, 2009

Fwd: How to shave 10 years off your life: Have high cholesterol, be hypertensive, and smoke

Smoking, together with high cholesterol and blood pressure, can knock 10 years off life expectancy in middle-aged men, new UK research shows. If excessive weight and glucose intolerance are added in, the difference can be as much as 15 years, they add.

http://www.theheart.org/article/1004611.do

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