{"id":404,"date":"2014-09-29T21:26:03","date_gmt":"2014-09-29T21:26:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.candelalearning.com\/lifespandevelopment1x1\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=404"},"modified":"2016-03-17T03:28:28","modified_gmt":"2016-03-17T03:28:28","slug":"most-common-causes-of-death","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-hccc-ss-152-1\/chapter\/most-common-causes-of-death\/","title":{"raw":"Most Common Causes of Death","rendered":"Most Common Causes of Death"},"content":{"raw":"<h2><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\"><strong>The United States<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\r\n<span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">In 1900, the most common causes of death were infectious diseases which brought death quickly.\u00a0Today, the most common causes of death are chronic diseases in which a slow and steady decline in health ultimately results in death.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">How might this impact the way we think of death, how we grieve, and the amount of control a person has over his or her own dying process?\u00a0<\/span>\r\n\r\nThe leading causes of death and number of deaths per category in 2004 in the United States are listed below.\u00a0(National Vital Statistics Reports, Center for Disease Control, 2006).\r\n<ul>\r\n\t<li>Heart Disease\u00a0(654,092)<\/li>\r\n\t<li>Malignant neoplasms (cancer) (550,270)<\/li>\r\n\t<li>Cerebrovascular disease (stroke) (150,147)<\/li>\r\n\t<li>Chronic lower respiratory disease (123,884)<\/li>\r\n\t<li>Accidents (123,884)<\/li>\r\n\t<li>Diabetes Mellitus (106.694)<\/li>\r\n\t<li>Alzheimer's Disease (72,815)<\/li>\r\n\t<li>Influenza and Pneumonia (65,829)<\/li>\r\n\t<li>Nephritis (61,472)<\/li>\r\n\t<li>Septicemia (42,762)<\/li>\r\n\t<li>Suicide (33,464)<\/li>\r\n\t<li>Chronic Liver Disease (31,647)<\/li>\r\n\t<li>Hypertension and hypertensive renal disease (26,549)<\/li>\r\n\t<li>Parkinson's disease (22,953)<\/li>\r\n\t<li>Pneumonitis (18,018)<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\nThese numbers reflect a change in Alzheimer's disease which moved up from the 8th leading cause of death to the 7th and influenza and pneumonia moved down in rank from 7th to 8th.\r\n<h2><strong>Deadliest Diseases Worldwide<\/strong><\/h2>\r\nThe top 12 deadliest diseases in the world are listed below along with the estimated number of deaths per cause.\u00a0These figures are for 2002 and do not reflect deaths due to violence or suicide (World Health Organization, World Health Report, 2004).\u00a0Notice the higher rates of death due to HIV\/AIDS, perinatal conditions and diarrheal conditions than is found in the United States. Deaths of infants, young children, young mothers, and men and women in adolescence, young adulthood and midlife are more common. Many of these deaths are due to preventable causes.\u00a0Ideas about the swiftness and unpredictable nature of death are certainly greater when living under such circumstances.\r\n<ol>\r\n\t<li><span class=\"tight\">Heart disease (7.2 million)<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t<li><span class=\"tight\">Cerebrovascular disease (5.5 million)<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t<li><span class=\"tight\">Lower respiratory infections (3.9 million)<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t<li><span class=\"tight\">HIV\/AIDS (2.8 million)<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t<li><span class=\"tight\">Chronic obstructive pulmonary (2.7 million)<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t<li><span class=\"tight\">Perinatal conditions (2.5 million)<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t<li><span class=\"tight\">Diarrheal diseases (1.8 million)<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t<li><span class=\"tight\">Tuberculosis (1.6 million)<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t<li><span class=\"tight\">Malaria (1.3 million)<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t<li><span class=\"tight\">Trachea, bronchus, lung cancers (1.2 million)<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t<li><span class=\"tight\">Road traffic accidents (1.2 million)<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t<li><span class=\"tight\">Diabetes mellitus (1 million)\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\r\n<\/ol>\r\n<h2><strong>A Comparison of Death by Age in the United States<\/strong>:<\/h2>\r\nA comparison of the causes of death in the United States in the year 2007 for people in late adulthood and among all ages is given below.\u00a0 Notice that 29 percent of all deaths were of people ages 85 and older and that rates of death due to heart disease had declined since 1997, although heart disease is still the leading cause of death.\r\n\r\n<img class=\"aligncenter wp-image-959 \" src=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/courses-images-archive-read-only\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1496\/2016\/03\/17025635\/Screen-Shot-2016-03-16-at-10.55.24-PM.png\" alt=\"Death rates among persons 65 years of age and over. In the year 2007, heart disease caused 28% of deaths, cancer 22%, strokes 7%, all other causes 27%, st\" width=\"598\" height=\"441\" \/>\r\n\r\n<img class=\"aligncenter wp-image-960 \" src=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/courses-images-archive-read-only\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1496\/2016\/03\/17025639\/Screen-Shot-2016-03-16-at-10.55.41-PM.png\" alt=\"Deaths for all ages in 2007, showing that 29% of all death were for people over the age of 85, 27% were between 75-84, 16% between 65-74, 20% between 45-64, 5% between 25-44, and 3% under 24.\" width=\"607\" height=\"449\" \/>","rendered":"<h2><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\"><strong>The United States<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">In 1900, the most common causes of death were infectious diseases which brought death quickly.\u00a0Today, the most common causes of death are chronic diseases in which a slow and steady decline in health ultimately results in death.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">How might this impact the way we think of death, how we grieve, and the amount of control a person has over his or her own dying process?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The leading causes of death and number of deaths per category in 2004 in the United States are listed below.\u00a0(National Vital Statistics Reports, Center for Disease Control, 2006).<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Heart Disease\u00a0(654,092)<\/li>\n<li>Malignant neoplasms (cancer) (550,270)<\/li>\n<li>Cerebrovascular disease (stroke) (150,147)<\/li>\n<li>Chronic lower respiratory disease (123,884)<\/li>\n<li>Accidents (123,884)<\/li>\n<li>Diabetes Mellitus (106.694)<\/li>\n<li>Alzheimer&#8217;s Disease (72,815)<\/li>\n<li>Influenza and Pneumonia (65,829)<\/li>\n<li>Nephritis (61,472)<\/li>\n<li>Septicemia (42,762)<\/li>\n<li>Suicide (33,464)<\/li>\n<li>Chronic Liver Disease (31,647)<\/li>\n<li>Hypertension and hypertensive renal disease (26,549)<\/li>\n<li>Parkinson&#8217;s disease (22,953)<\/li>\n<li>Pneumonitis (18,018)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These numbers reflect a change in Alzheimer&#8217;s disease which moved up from the 8th leading cause of death to the 7th and influenza and pneumonia moved down in rank from 7th to 8th.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Deadliest Diseases Worldwide<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The top 12 deadliest diseases in the world are listed below along with the estimated number of deaths per cause.\u00a0These figures are for 2002 and do not reflect deaths due to violence or suicide (World Health Organization, World Health Report, 2004).\u00a0Notice the higher rates of death due to HIV\/AIDS, perinatal conditions and diarrheal conditions than is found in the United States. Deaths of infants, young children, young mothers, and men and women in adolescence, young adulthood and midlife are more common. Many of these deaths are due to preventable causes.\u00a0Ideas about the swiftness and unpredictable nature of death are certainly greater when living under such circumstances.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><span class=\"tight\">Heart disease (7.2 million)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"tight\">Cerebrovascular disease (5.5 million)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"tight\">Lower respiratory infections (3.9 million)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"tight\">HIV\/AIDS (2.8 million)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"tight\">Chronic obstructive pulmonary (2.7 million)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"tight\">Perinatal conditions (2.5 million)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"tight\">Diarrheal diseases (1.8 million)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"tight\">Tuberculosis (1.6 million)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"tight\">Malaria (1.3 million)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"tight\">Trachea, bronchus, lung cancers (1.2 million)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"tight\">Road traffic accidents (1.2 million)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"tight\">Diabetes mellitus (1 million)\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h2><strong>A Comparison of Death by Age in the United States<\/strong>:<\/h2>\n<p>A comparison of the causes of death in the United States in the year 2007 for people in late adulthood and among all ages is given below.\u00a0 Notice that 29 percent of all deaths were of people ages 85 and older and that rates of death due to heart disease had declined since 1997, although heart disease is still the leading cause of death.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-959\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/courses-images-archive-read-only\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1496\/2016\/03\/17025635\/Screen-Shot-2016-03-16-at-10.55.24-PM.png\" alt=\"Death rates among persons 65 years of age and over. In the year 2007, heart disease caused 28% of deaths, cancer 22%, strokes 7%, all other causes 27%, st\" width=\"598\" height=\"441\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-960\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/courses-images-archive-read-only\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1496\/2016\/03\/17025639\/Screen-Shot-2016-03-16-at-10.55.41-PM.png\" alt=\"Deaths for all ages in 2007, showing that 29% of all death were for people over the age of 85, 27% were between 75-84, 16% between 65-74, 20% between 45-64, 5% between 25-44, and 3% under 24.\" width=\"607\" height=\"449\" \/><\/p>\n\n\t\t\t <section class=\"citations-section\" role=\"contentinfo\">\n\t\t\t <h3>Candela Citations<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t <div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <div id=\"citation-list-404\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t <div class=\"licensing\"><div class=\"license-attribution-dropdown-subheading\">CC licensed content, Shared previously<\/div><ul class=\"citation-list\"><li>Psyc 200 Lifespan Psychology. <strong>Authored by<\/strong>: Laura Overstreet. <strong>Located at<\/strong>: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/opencourselibrary.org\/econ-201\/\">http:\/\/opencourselibrary.org\/econ-201\/<\/a>. <strong>License<\/strong>: <em><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"license\" href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/4.0\/\">CC BY: Attribution<\/a><\/em><\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\n\t\t\t <\/section>","protected":false},"author":74,"menu_order":2,"template":"","meta":{"_candela_citation":"[{\"type\":\"cc\",\"description\":\"Psyc 200 Lifespan Psychology\",\"author\":\"Laura Overstreet\",\"organization\":\"\",\"url\":\"http:\/\/opencourselibrary.org\/econ-201\/\",\"project\":\"\",\"license\":\"cc-by\",\"license_terms\":\"\"}]","CANDELA_OUTCOMES_GUID":"","pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-404","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry"],"part":397,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-hccc-ss-152-1\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-hccc-ss-152-1\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-hccc-ss-152-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-hccc-ss-152-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/74"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-hccc-ss-152-1\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":961,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-hccc-ss-152-1\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/404\/revisions\/961"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-hccc-ss-152-1\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/397"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-hccc-ss-152-1\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/404\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-hccc-ss-152-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-hccc-ss-152-1\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=404"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-hccc-ss-152-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=404"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-hccc-ss-152-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}