Table 1.
Global deaths attributed to exposure-risk factors for chronic diseases.
Table 2.
Data sources and statistics for estimation of population attributable fractions (PAFs) in monozygotic twins.
Fig 1.
Population attributable fractions (PAFs) for 28 disease phenotypes estimated from studies of monozygotic twins.
Sources of data and statistics are summarized in Table 2.
Fig 2.
Numbers of Western-European deaths in 2000 estimated for ischemic heart disease and nine cancer types (1.53 million total deaths from these causes).
The contributions attributed to genetics plus shared exposures are based on the population attributable fractions (PAFs) estimated from Western European monozygotic twins (Table 2).