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Mortality from non-communicable diseases (NCDs) is influenced bymodifiable risk factors. Simple tools which do not require laboratory tests, (blood pressure (BP) [B], exercise [E], weight [W], alimentation [A] (fruit and vegetable consumption), and tobacco [T] (BEWAT) may estimate the risk of all-cause and cause specific mortality.

Therefore, we evaluated the link between BEWAT and mortality in a randomly selected sample of the US population.

Adults aged ≥20 years, enrolled in the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES-III, 1988–1994) and continuous NHANES (2005–2010), and followed up to December 31st 2011, were included in the present analysis. Multiple Cox regressionswere applied to evaluate the associations between the total BEWAT score and each of its components with all-cause …