Why are we dying? Dry numbers

    Medicine is improving from year to year, we are creating new drugs, fighting viruses, and increasing life expectancy. How exactly medicine affects mortality can be judged by the lists of leading causes of death in different periods.

    The New England Medical Journal published the most common causes of death in the United States in 1900 and 2010. In just over a hundred years, humanity got rid of a huge number of diseases, but at the same time, some causes have become more common - for example, cancer and heart disease.

    Under the cut - data for the USA, for the world in 2012 and for Russia for 2013.

    A table of causes of death in the USA per 100,000 people.


    Many drugs, including antibiotics, as well as simple hygiene helped to get rid of many diseases. Now tuberculosis, diphtheria and gastrointestinal infections are not so terrible. The number of fatal accidents has approximately halved. Separately, it is worth mentioning suicide: perhaps fewer people began to fear the wrath of God, because 12.2 deaths per 100 thousand in the United States in 2010 were suicides.

    However, the number of deaths from cancer tumors rose in the "ranking" from eighth place (64 people per 100,000 deaths) to the second - 185.9 people. And heart disease rose from fourth to first place. Having shifted pneumonia and colds from the first to the ninth. Also on the list are diabetes and Alzheimer's disease.

    Could this be caused by ecology, climate change and an increase in the world's population? And, of course, simply incorrect diagnoses could affect the results of the study.

    What in the world?


    According to the World Health Organization, the world results are so very different . In 2012, 7.4 million people died due to coronary heart disease - coronary heart disease. In second place was a stroke. The third also includes non-communicable respiratory diseases and respiratory diseases.

    The main differences relate to HIV / AIDS, which did not enter the USA at all in the TOP-10 in 2010, but became the eighth most common cause of death in the world, and diarrhea, which also claimed 1.5 million people in the world, but also did not get into rating in the states.

    These results are strongly influenced by “geographical” reasons: after all, the state of things in countries where medicine is not well developed is taken into account.



    What about Russia?


    Rosstat published the causes of mortality among Russians in 2013. So we also have diseases of the heart and blood vessels in the first place - 55% of the dead. Of these, cardiac ischemia - 29.1%, cerebrovascular disease - 16.9%, and this is 278 696 and 161 658 people, respectively.

    Due to neoplasms, 143,145 people died, which is 15% of all diseases.

    Total



    As you can see, the main risks around the world are associated with a violation in the functioning of the circulatory system. The reasons are not only age-related or hereditary, but also obesity, smoking, drinking and - attention, friends! - low mobility. Remember that having a fitness tracker on your wrist does not automatically make you healthy, monitor your diet and go to the doctor. And may the force be with you.

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