Leading Causes of Death in the US
If you were to ask any person on the street, what the leading causes of death in the United States are, what answers would you get? ... Many people outside the healthcare field would not know for certain what the number one cause of death actually was. Now ask the same people what the top 10 causes of death were and you would be hard pressed to find one person who could. ... ” When actually looking at the preliminary results from the Center for Disease Control (CDC) for the year 2000, as to the top ten leading causes of death in the United States (http://www. ... For the record the top ten leading causes of death in the United States are as follows. Rank Name Common Name Number of Deaths Annually 1 Diseases of heart Heart Disease 709,894 2 Malignant neoplasm Cancer 551,833 3 Cerebro-vascular diseases Stroke 166,028 4 Chronic lower respiratory diseases Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), emphysema and chronic bronchitis 123,550 5 Accidents unintentional injuries 93,592 6 Diabetes mellitus Diabetes 68,662 7 Influenza and pneumonia 67,024 8 Alzheimers disease 49,044 9 Nephritis, nephrotic syndrome and nephrosis Kidney disease 37,672 10 Septicemia Blood poisoning 31,613 The diseases themselves are familiar at least in name to most, but what is not always known is how the role of the four determinants of health plays into the causes, or multiply the effects of the disease on a person’s body. ... It is no wonder why causes of diseases are so highly confusing to most. These causes are even often times confusing to Doctors and Researchers as well. This is apparent when we see all of the conflicting research as to what causes what, in our daily papers. The roll the determinants play in each of the causes of death needs to be examined at the individual level to see how they are related to an over all picture of health care in the United States. ... If we were to look at the tenth leading cause of death – septicemia, which is basically blood poisoning we could see that there is not a big (known) genetic component.