Talking of Causes of Death .............

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Hi folks:

Here are a couple of lists I put together for the website that never

seemed to get finished (please excuse the formatting):

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Shown below are the things that are most likely to kill you:

Causes of Death - Final Data 2001 - United States

(All causes accounting for more than one percent of deaths)

Percent Number Cause

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29.0% 700,142 Heart Disease

22.9 553,768 Cancer

6.8 163,538 Stroke

5.1 123,013 Chronic lower respiratory disease

4.2 101,537 Accidents

3.0 71,372 Diabetes

2.6 62,034 Pneumonia/influenza

2.2 53,852 Alzheimer's

1.6 39,480 Kidney disease

1.3 32,238 Septicemia

1.3 30,622 Suicide

1.1 27,035 Liver disease

(Source: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr52/nvsr52_03.pdf)

Breakdown of Cancer Deaths - Estimated 2004 - United States

(All Causes of over 10,000 Deaths)

Percent Number Site

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28.5% 160,440 Lung

10.1 56,730 Colon/rectum

7.2 40,580 Breast

5.5 31,270 Pancreas

5.3 29,900 Prostate

4.1 23,300 Leukemia

3.7 20,730 Lymphoma

2.9 16,090 Ovary

2.5 14,270 Liver

2.4 13,300 Esophagus

2.3 12,710 Bladder

2.3 12,690 Brain

2.2 12,480 Kidney

2.1 11,780 Stomach

2.0 11,070 Multiple myeloma

1.8 10,250 Skin

15.3 86,110 All other

(Source: www.cancer.org)