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Leading Causes of Death According to National Vital Statistics Reports
Preliminary data in this report are based on records of deaths that occurred in calendar year 2009,
which were received from state vital statistics offices and processed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) as of November 5, 2010. We will focus only on a part related to causes of death regardless of demographics, sex, race, age etc.The number of cases are used by pharmaceutical companies to develop a treatment by allocating R&D dollars that has more commercial coverage meaning addressing a larger population. Naturally, this is not the only criteria used to get "a bigger bang for the buck".
The 15 leading causes of death in 2009 remained the same as in 2008, with the exception of two causes
that exchanged ranks. Intentional self-harm (suicide), the eleventh leading cause of death in 2008,
became the tenth leading cause of death in 2009, whereas Septicemia, the tenth leading cause in 2008,
became the eleventh leading cause of death in 2009.National Vital Statistics Reports, Vol. 59, No. 4
The 15 leading causes of death in 2009 (Table B) were as follows:
1 Diseases of heart
2 Cancer (Malignant neoplasms)
3 Chronic lower respiratory diseases
4 Cerebrovascular diseases
5 Accidents (unintentional injuries)
6 Alzheimer’s disease
7 Diabetes mellitus
8 Influenza and pneumonia
9 Nephritis, nephritic syndrome
10 Intentional self-harm (suicide)
11 Septicemia (Septicemia is the presence of bacteria in the blood (bacteremia) and is often associated with severe infections
12 Chronic liver disease and cirrhosis
13 Essential hypertension and hypertensive renal disease
14 Parkinson’s disease
15 Assault (homicide)
Statistics
From 2008 to 2009 the age-adjusted death rate declined significantly for 10 of the 15 leading causes of death. For example,Diseases of heart, decreased by 3.7 percent. The age-adjusted death rate for Malignant neoplasms decreased by 1.1 percent Deaths from these two diseases combined accounted for 48 percent of deaths in the United States in 2009. Although heart disease mortality has exhibited a downward trend since 1950, cancer mortality began to decline only in the early 1990s (10,22). The preliminary age adjusted death rate also decreased significantly for Chronic lower respiratory diseases (4.1 percent) and Cerebrovascular diseases (4.2 percent) Alzheimer disease (4.1 percent), Diabetes mellitus (4.1 percent), Influenza and pneumonia (4.7 percent). The observed increase in the age-adjusted death rate for Intentional self-harm (suicide) was not significant. The age-adjusted death rates for Nephritis, nephritic syndrome and nephritis, Chronic liver disease and cirrhosis, Essential hypertension and hypertensive renal disease, and Parkinson's disease remained unchanged from 2008 to 2009.
which were received from state vital statistics offices and processed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) as of November 5, 2010. We will focus only on a part related to causes of death regardless of demographics, sex, race, age etc.The number of cases are used by pharmaceutical companies to develop a treatment by allocating R&D dollars that has more commercial coverage meaning addressing a larger population. Naturally, this is not the only criteria used to get "a bigger bang for the buck".
The 15 leading causes of death in 2009 remained the same as in 2008, with the exception of two causes
that exchanged ranks. Intentional self-harm (suicide), the eleventh leading cause of death in 2008,
became the tenth leading cause of death in 2009, whereas Septicemia, the tenth leading cause in 2008,
became the eleventh leading cause of death in 2009.National Vital Statistics Reports, Vol. 59, No. 4
The 15 leading causes of death in 2009 (Table B) were as follows:
1 Diseases of heart
2 Cancer (Malignant neoplasms)
3 Chronic lower respiratory diseases
4 Cerebrovascular diseases
5 Accidents (unintentional injuries)
6 Alzheimer’s disease
7 Diabetes mellitus
8 Influenza and pneumonia
9 Nephritis, nephritic syndrome
10 Intentional self-harm (suicide)
11 Septicemia (Septicemia is the presence of bacteria in the blood (bacteremia) and is often associated with severe infections
12 Chronic liver disease and cirrhosis
13 Essential hypertension and hypertensive renal disease
14 Parkinson’s disease
15 Assault (homicide)
Statistics
From 2008 to 2009 the age-adjusted death rate declined significantly for 10 of the 15 leading causes of death. For example,Diseases of heart, decreased by 3.7 percent. The age-adjusted death rate for Malignant neoplasms decreased by 1.1 percent Deaths from these two diseases combined accounted for 48 percent of deaths in the United States in 2009. Although heart disease mortality has exhibited a downward trend since 1950, cancer mortality began to decline only in the early 1990s (10,22). The preliminary age adjusted death rate also decreased significantly for Chronic lower respiratory diseases (4.1 percent) and Cerebrovascular diseases (4.2 percent) Alzheimer disease (4.1 percent), Diabetes mellitus (4.1 percent), Influenza and pneumonia (4.7 percent). The observed increase in the age-adjusted death rate for Intentional self-harm (suicide) was not significant. The age-adjusted death rates for Nephritis, nephritic syndrome and nephritis, Chronic liver disease and cirrhosis, Essential hypertension and hypertensive renal disease, and Parkinson's disease remained unchanged from 2008 to 2009.
