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. 2019 Feb 12;73(4):624–633. doi: 10.1038/s41430-019-0401-5

Table 4.

Sensitivity of the health modelling results to changes in the lags in dietary effects on disease and the disease trends, shown for the scenarios that achieve the largest lifetime health gain in DALYs

Country Dietary scenario with best health outcomes Millions of DALYs averted (% changea)
Base case No lags Longer lags No trends
Men
UK + 50% GHGE reduction 21 22 (+7%) 19 (−7%) 19 (−9%)
France + 30% GHGE reduction 7.3 8.1 (+11%) 6.5 (−10%) 8.7 (+20%)
Italy GHGE minimised 13 14 (+13%) 11 (−11%) 18 (+43%)
Sweden + 60% GHGE reduction 2 2.2 (+10%) 1.8 (−10%) 2.2 (+12%)
Finland + 70% GHGE reduction 2.5 2.7 (+7%) 2.3 (−7%) 2.5 (-0.1%)
Women
UK GHGE minimised 20 21 (+7%) 18 (−7%) 20 (+3%)
France GHGE minimised 15 16 (+8%) 14 (−8%) 16 (+4%)
Italy + 60% GHGE reduction 15 16 (+11%) 13 (−9%) 20 (+38%)
Sweden GHGE minimised 1.5 1.6 (+9%) 1.4 (−9%) 1.7 (+11%)
Finland GHGE minimised 2.3 2.5 (+8%) 2.1 (−8%) 2.5 (+8%)

aPercent change in comparison to DALYs averted in base case scenarios