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 ...
Using national death certificate data for 2020 and provisional data for 2021 from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, this cross-sectional
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Even in the pandemic, don't forget tobacco Are you tired of hearing about covid-19? I am too. So, here's a tirade about something completely different: the leading cause of death in the United States. Since at least 1993, when McGinnis and Foege published their landmark paper ...
Heart disease remained the leading cause of death, followed by cancer. Death rates for these two killers ticked down about 4% and 3%, respectively. Together,heart diseaseand cancer still caused about two out of every five deaths nationwide, the report showed. ...
The study found that the overall age-adjusted death rate increased by almost 1% in 2021 from 2020. COVID-19 was the third leading underlying cause of death in 2021 for the second year since the disease emerged, after heart disease and cancer. ...
Staring into the abyss of a fentanyl crisis in the US, one would think introspection might be in order. But no, instead, the blame-shifting spectacle continues in the "land of the free." Fentanyl, now the leading cause of death for Americans aged 18 to 49, is evidently not something th...
A new report from American Cancer Society researchers finds that despite declining death rates, cancer has surpassed heart disease as the leading cause of death among Hispanics in the U.S. In 2009, the most recent year for which actual data are available, 29,935 people of Hispanic origin in...
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