Global Health Risks: Selected figures and tables from the World Health Organization provides data on leading global health risks in 2004. The top three leading causes of global mortality are high blood pressure (12.8% of deaths), tobacco use (8.7%), and high blood glucose (5.8%). For global burden of disease, the top three leading risk factors are childhood underweight (5.9% of DALYs), unsafe sex (4.6%), and alcohol use (4.5%). Environmental risks such as unsafe water and indoor air pollution from solid fuels cause around 2 million child deaths annually, primarily in low-income countries. Risk factors including high blood pressure, tobacco use, diet, physical in