The burden of disease and injury in the United States 1996

Table 24 Leading causes of YLD – Blacks

	BLACK MALES
Rank	Simple cause list	YLD	% total YLD
	Total YLD	1,086,407
1	Alcohol use	135,346	12.5%
2	HIV	73,292	6.7%
3	Unipolar major depression	57,653	5.3%
4	Cerebrovascular Disease	49,191	4.5%
5	Drug use	44,504	4.1%
6	Asthma	42,295	3.9%
7	Diabetes mellitus	39,783	3.7%
8	COPD	38,739	3.6%
9	Osteoarthritis	38,641	3.6%
10	Congenital Abnomalities	36,030	3.3%
11	Road Traffic Accidents	31,173	2.9%
12	Dementia and other degenerative and hereditary CNS disorders	28,292	2.6%
13	Homicide and Violence	26,846	2.5%
14	Bipolar disorder	26,799	2.5%
15	Schizophrenia	24,323	2.2%
16	Ischaemic heart disease	18,148	1.7%
17	Falls	15,894	1.5%
18	Diarrhoeal diseases	15,602	1.4%
19	Inflammatory Cardiac	13,178	1.2%
20	Obsessive-compulsive disorders	12,818	1.2%
	sub-total	768,546	70.7%
	BLACK FEMALES
Rank	Simple cause list	YLD	% total YLD
	Total YLD	1,145,131
1	Unipolar major depression	119,471	10.4%
2	Alcohol use	74,248	6.5%
3	Cerebrovascular Disease	74,179	6.5%
4	Diabetes mellitus	54,409	4.8%
5	Asthma	50,869	4.4%
6	Osteoarthritis	48,521	4.2%
7	Dementia and other degenerative and hereditary CNS disorders	37,519	3.3%
8	HIV	31,719	2.8%
9	Congenital Abnomalities	31,654	2.8%
10	COPD	31,132	2.7%
11	PTSD	27,508	2.4%
12	Panic disorder	26,916	2.4%
13	Bipolar disorder	24,649	2.2%
14	Schizophrenia	22,823	2.0%
15	Ischaemic heart disease	21,685	1.9%
16	Road Traffic Accidents	19,754	1.7%
17	STD's excluding HIV	17,688	1.5%
18	Drug use	17,686	1.5%
19	Maternal Conditions	16,770	1.5%
20	Rheumatoid arthritis	15,521	1.4%
	sub-total	764,722	66.8%

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