I am trying find a table (on the Internet) that details at least the
first few hundred disease conditions (ranked in descending order both
by incidence and by being or contributing to the cause of death) in
the U.S? In cases of diseases, which has many different types (for
example, cancer), I need the incidence rates broken out by type of
that disease. If the table could reflect risk more specifically to
mycategory (e.g. white, 60-year-old middle class male with no history
ofsmoking or drinking and not much overweight), that would be
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Request for Question Clarification by
pafalafa-ga
on
06 Mar 2005 04:03 PST
You can find a good deal of what you're looking for in a very recent
report from the US government health authorities:
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr53/nvsr53_15.pdf
Deaths: Preliminary Data for 2003
February 28, 2005
The most comprehensive data in the report is in this table:
Table 2. Deaths, death rates, and age-adjusted death rates for 113
selected causes, Injury by firearms, Drug-induced deaths,
Alcohol-induced deaths, and
Injury at work
but a summary list is also provided that clumps together many
indvidiual causes into broad categories (e.g. liver cancers and other
specific cancers are included in the "malignant neoplasms" category)
The 15 leading causes of death in 2003 were as follows:
1) Diseases of heart;
2) Malignant neoplasms;
3) Cerebrovascular diseases;
4) Chronic lower respiratory diseases;
5) Accidents (unintentional injuries);
6) Diabetes mellitus;
7) Influenza and pneumonia;
8) Alzheimer?s disease;
9) Nephritis, nephrotic syndrome and nephrosis;
10) Septicemia;
11) Intentional self-harm (suicide);
12) Chronic liver disease and cirrhosis;
13) Essential (primary) hypertension and hypertensive renal disease;
14) Parkinson?s disease;
15) Pneumonitis due to solids and liquids.
Some information on which diseases strike which age groups is
scattered throughout the report.
The information on diseases gets down to a pretty precise level of
detail. For instance, there were 42 deaths nationwide from salmonella
-- a seemingly small number, but still enough to put the disease on
the list of Top 100 causes of death.
Is this sort of information getting close to what you need?
pafalafa-ga
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Clarification of Question by
goldwinde-ga
on
06 Mar 2005 14:53 PST
In response to Pafalafa, the info you referenced from the CDC is
exactly what I wanted (for part of the question). What is still
needed are incidence rates of diseases which can be debilitating, but
which may not necessarily cause deaths. Of course, this would include
things like cancer (the incidence rate would be higher than the death
rate), but it would also include things like kidney stones or BPH
(enlarged prostate), etc. Although I did not put this in the original
question, I am especially interesting in those diseases which are age
related (this info would just be an extra; if I get the regular
indicidence rate, then I will consider the answer to be complete).
Thank you!
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