In 2023, deaths for which COVID-19 was listed as the underlying cause fell by more than 73%. Overall, the country’s 10 leading causes of death in 2023 remained the same as in 2022, though with some shifts in rank. Nine of the 10 leading causes also saw statistically significant ...
Among those aged 45 to 54 years, COVID-19 was the fourth leading cause of death in 2020 (17 000 deaths, 10.4% of deaths), following heart disease, cancer, and accidents; in 2021, however, it was the leading cause of death (30 000 deaths, 16.8% of deaths). In both time ...
COVID-19 has significantly fallen as a leading cause of death in the U.S. for the first time since the pandemic began, according tonew provisional datapublished Thursday from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). In 2023, the virus was the tenth-leading cause of death am...
Of the top 20 causes of death, only four are infectious: COVID-19, lower respiratory infections, tuberculosis, and diarrhoeal diseases. The latter two are much less common in high-income countries. The same is true for preterm birth complications, which are the leading cause of preventable chi...
Deceases due to heart conditions were the most common causes of death in Mexico in 2022. During that period, more than 200,000 people died due to these diseases in the North American country. Diabetes mellitus ranked second, with over 115,000 deaths registered that year. Obesity in MexicoObe...
While some might harbor fears of dying from a lightning strike or shark attack, the cause of your ultimate demise is likely to be much less conspicuous. Here are the top 10 leading causes of death in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The data ...
be on track to remain the third leading cause of death, based on incomplete data from earlier in 2022."If it was a really bad, huge surge, maybe there would have been a change. But COVID deaths, after last February or March, really kind of changed. And a lot of the characteristics ...
COVID-19 was the underlying cause of death for more than 940,000 people in the US, including over 1,300 deaths among children and young people aged 0–19 years. Until now, it had been unclear how the burden of deaths from COVID-19 compared with other leading causes of deaths in this...
Article Open access Published: 06 December 2022 The overlapping burden of the three leading causes of disability and death in sub-Saharan African childrenRobert C. Reiner Jr., LBD Triple Burden Collaborators & Simon I. Hay Nature Communications volume 13, Article number: 7457 (2022) Cite this ...
In the first 20 months of the COVID-19 pandemic, the disease accounted for one in eight deaths and was the third leading cause of death in the United States, according to a study published in JAMA Internal Medicine.Emma BascomInfectious Disease News...