The three leading causes of death in the U.S. were heart disease, cancer and unintentional injury, respectively, which is unchanged from 2022. Last year marked the first time since the pandemic began that COVID-19 was not one of the top five leading causes of death. Provisional data show...
Heart conditions were the most common causes of death in Mexico in 2023. During that period, more than 189,000 people died in the North American country as a result from said conditions. Diabetes mellitus ranked second, with over 110,000 deaths registered that year. Obesity in MexicoObesity ...
This 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.doi:10.1001/jama.2024.15563Farida B. Ahmad, MPH...
‘The majority of the voters seem to have elected an autocrat': Democratic Rep. Jim Clyburn of South Carolina weighs in on President Donald Trump’s first weeks in office, how to alleviate poverty and more. Aneeta Mathur-AshtonFeb. 24, 2025 ...
Zimmerman, PhD, MS, MPH JAMA Medical News & Perspectives Preparing Hospitals’ Medical Oxygen Delivery Systems for a Respiratory “Twindemic” Melissa Suran, PhD, MSJ JAMA Viewpoint Leading Causes of Death in the US, 2019-2023 Farida B. Ahmad, MPH; Jodi A. Cisewski, MPH; Robert N. ...
Using national death certificate data for 2020 and provisional data for 2021 from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, this cross-sectional
Trends in the Leading Causes of Death in the United States, 1970-2002 ContextThe decrease in overall death rates in the United States may mask changesin death rates from specific conditions.ObjectiveTo examine temporal trends... Jemal,Ahmedin - 《Jama the Journal of the American Medical Associati...
Heart disease and cancer still top the list as the leading causes of death in the United States, but the gap is closing between the two. A new report out from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention looks at the shifting trends in Americans' health and mortality, and the conditions...
Showing 1 to 10 of 20 entries ‹12› Among the leading causes of death, COVID-19 took the second spot in 2021 when deaths from the virus reached their peak. It’s worth noting that the number of reported COVID-19 deaths has dropped dramatically in the last few years. Of the top...
The Top 10 Causes of Death in the U.S. View All 13 Slides The study attributed 3,900 deaths in the 1- to 19-year age group to motor vehicles. The authors added that drug poisoning deaths rose more than 83% to more than 1,700. Drug poisoning was the third-lead...