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Subject: What are the top 10 killers in the U.S.?
Category: Health > Conditions and Diseases
Asked by: severisth-ga
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Posted: 30 Nov 2004 11:04 PST
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Question ID: 436150

What are the top 10 killers in the United States?  (e.g. Heart Disease, Cancer...)

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Subject: Re: What are the top 10 killers in the U.S.?
Answered By: bobbie7-ga on 30 Nov 2004 11:19 PST
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Hello Severisth,

> What are the top 10 killers in the United States?  (e.g. Heart
Disease, Cancer...) <

According to an article published March 8, 2004 at The American
Medical News Web site of the AMA, the top 10 killers are:

Heart disease
Cancer
Cerebrovascular diseases
Chronic lower respiratory disease
Unintentional injuries
Diabetes
Influenza and pneumonia
Alzheimer's disease
Kidney disease
Septicemia

American Medical Association
http://www.ama-assn.org/amednews/2004/03/08/hlsa0308.htm#s1


Here is another good resource.

WISQARS Leading Causes of Death Reports, 1999 - 2002 
Choose your Report Options, then click the Submit Request button. 
http://webapp.cdc.gov/sasweb/ncipc/leadcaus10.html


Search criteria:
"top 10 killers"  cancer heart disease

I hope this is helpful.

Best regards,
Bobbie7

severisth-ga rated this answer: 5 out of 5 stars

Perfect!  The WISQARS link was particularly useful, it allowed me to
narrow down the statistics based on my own risk.  Now it's time to
figure out how to prevent each of these...

Thank you bobbie7!

Comments

Subject: Re: What are the top 10 killers in the U.S.?
From: probonopublico-ga on 30 Nov 2004 13:06 PST

But in the end, something is gonna get you.

Probably.

Subject: Re: What are the top 10 killers in the U.S.?
From: severisth-ga on 30 Nov 2004 13:13 PST

;)

The question is, does it get you at 50 or at 90?  40 years seems like
a long time to enjoy life!

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