The leading causes of death in 2023 remained heart disease, cancer, and unintentional injury, although heart disease deaths declined while deaths from cancer increased. The analysis was based on preliminary data from US death certificates, with the final annual mortality data ...
(HealthDay)—Cancer death rates declined for adults aged 45 to 64 years from 1999 to 2017, while heart disease death rates decreased to 2011 and then increased, according to the May 22 National Vital Statistics Reports, a publication from the U.S. Center
(HealthDay)—Heart disease tops the list of what's most likely to kill you or someone you love, U.S. health officials reported Thursday.
Heart disease, cancer, chronic respiratory disease, stroke and accidental injuries are the five leading causes of death in the U.S., which prematurely kill about 900,000 people each year. In 2010, these top five killers accounted for 63 percent of all U.S. deaths, according to a new repo...
Life expectancy increased in 2018 for the first time in several years, and the rate of heart disease deaths saw a slight dip—though it remains the nation's top killer, according to new federal reports. Adults gained 1.2 months, or 36 days, in life expectancy compared to 2017, according ...
The researchers found that there were 200,070 avoidable deaths from heart disease, stroke, and hypertensive disease in 2010 (age-standardized death rate, 60.7 per 100,000). Although the highestdeath rateswere among those 65 to 74 years old, 56 percent of deaths occurred in people under 65 ye...
(HealthDay)—The age-adjusted mortality rates from heart failure decreased from 2000 to 2012 but increased from 2012 through 2014, according to a December data brief published by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for H
More than two-thirds of the deaths mentioning long COVID were on certificates citing COVID-19 as the underlying cause of death. Heart disease was the second most frequent underlying cause, cited in 8.6% of long COVID deaths. The symptoms and toll of long COVID ...
The CDC in its Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) said COVID-19 was the third leading cause of death last year behind heart disease and cancer. Overall, the novel disease was behind some 375,000 deaths in 2020, the ...
In 2023, the overall age-adjusted deaths rates were lowest and highest for non-Hispanic multiracial and non-Hispanic Black or African American persons, respectively (352.1 and 924.3, respectively). Heart disease,cancer, and unintentional injury were the leading causes of death. The number of deaths...