Why do we die? Dry numbers
Medicine is improving from year to year, we are creating new drugs, fighting viruses, increasing life expectancy. How exactly medicine affects mortality can be judged from the lists of leading causes of death at 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, humankind got rid of a huge number of diseases, but at the same time some reasons became more common - for example, cancer and heart disease.
Under the cut - data for the United States, for the world for 2012 and for Russia for 2013.
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Table of causes of death in the United States 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. Approximately two times the number of fatal accidents has decreased. Separately, it should be said about suicide: perhaps fewer people began to fear the Wrath of God, because 12.2 deaths per 100 thousand in the United States in 2010 fell on suicide.
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. Removing pneumonia and colds from the first to the ninth. Also on the list is diabetes and Alzheimer's disease.
Could this have been caused by ecology, climate change and an increase in the population of the planet? And, of course, the results of the study could have been simply affected by incorrect diagnoses.
According to the World Health Organization, the results are so different around the world . In 2012, 7.4 million people died due to coronary artery disease - coronary heart disease. In second place was a stroke. The third is also non-communicable respiratory diseases and respiratory diseases.
The main differences relate to HIV / AIDS, which in the TOP 10 in 2010 did not enter the United States at all, and the eighth most common cause of death in the world, and diarrhea, which also killed 1.5 million people in the world, but also did not fall into rating in the states.
These results are strongly influenced by “geographic” reasons: after all, the state of affairs in countries where medicine is not well developed is taken into account.
Rosstat published the causes of death 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, heart ischemia is 29.1%, cerebrovascular diseases 16.9%, and these are 278,696 and 161,658 people, respectively.
Due to neoplasms, 143,145 people died, which is 15% of all diseases.
As you can see, the main risks around the world are associated with a malfunction of the circulatory system. The reasons are not only adolescent or hereditary, but also obesity, smoking, drinking alcohol and - attention, friends! - low mobility. Remember that having a fitness tracker on your wrist does not automatically make you healthy, watch your diet and go to a doctor. And may the force be with you.
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, humankind got rid of a huge number of diseases, but at the same time some reasons became more common - for example, cancer and heart disease.
Under the cut - data for the United States, for the world for 2012 and for Russia for 2013.
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Table of causes of death in the United States 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. Approximately two times the number of fatal accidents has decreased. Separately, it should be said about suicide: perhaps fewer people began to fear the Wrath of God, because 12.2 deaths per 100 thousand in the United States in 2010 fell on suicide.
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. Removing pneumonia and colds from the first to the ninth. Also on the list is diabetes and Alzheimer's disease.
Could this have been caused by ecology, climate change and an increase in the population of the planet? And, of course, the results of the study could have been simply affected by incorrect diagnoses.
What in the world?
According to the World Health Organization, the results are so different around the world . In 2012, 7.4 million people died due to coronary artery disease - coronary heart disease. In second place was a stroke. The third is also non-communicable respiratory diseases and respiratory diseases.
The main differences relate to HIV / AIDS, which in the TOP 10 in 2010 did not enter the United States at all, and the eighth most common cause of death in the world, and diarrhea, which also killed 1.5 million people in the world, but also did not fall into rating in the states.
These results are strongly influenced by “geographic” reasons: after all, the state of affairs in countries where medicine is not well developed is taken into account.
And Russia?
Rosstat published the causes of death 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, heart ischemia is 29.1%, cerebrovascular diseases 16.9%, and these are 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 malfunction of the circulatory system. The reasons are not only adolescent or hereditary, but also obesity, smoking, drinking alcohol and - attention, friends! - low mobility. Remember that having a fitness tracker on your wrist does not automatically make you healthy, watch your diet and go to a doctor. And may the force be with you.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/362979/
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