Scientists quantify healthy years gained by avoiding obesity, hypertension, diabetes

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Obesity, hypertension and diabetes are known risk factors for heart failure, a chronic condition in which the heart cannot pump enough blood to meet the body's needs. For the first time, scientists have quantified the average number of heart failure-free years a person gains by not developing those risk factors by age 45.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/03/150304190112.htm