CAUSES of deathMEDICAL statisticsMEDICAL centersCOVID-19This Viewpoint from the National Center for Health Statistics reports the leading causes of death in the US from 2019 to 2023, including the emergence of COVID-19 and shifts in other top causes as pandemic deaths decreased.Ahmad, Fa...
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 ...
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 amo...
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1 The provisional leading cause-of-death rankings for 2020 indicate that COVID-19 was the third leading cause of death in the US behind heart disease and cancer.1 Mortality Data From the NVSS The NVSS collects, processes, tabulates, and disseminates vital statistics based on death ...
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...
Sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), also referred to as crib death, is the unexplained, sudden death of a seemingly healthy baby under the age of one. Although the cause of SIDS is unknown, it has been considered to be associated with defects in the portion of a baby’s brain that ...
The claim that medical error is the third leading cause of death in the US has never been close to true.
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...
In 2021, firearms continued to be a leading cause of death among U.S. children, with a 41.6 percent increase in the firearm death rate from 2018 to 2021, according to a study published online Aug. 21 in Pediatrics.