The burden of disease and injury in the United States 1996

Table 6 Twenty leading causes of DALYs and deaths, US 1996

	DALY	% of total		Deaths	% of total
Total DALYs	33,090,212		Total Deaths	2,314,689
Ischemic heart disease	3,134,732	9.5	Ischemic heart disease	536,314	23.17
Cerebrovascular Disease	1,510,287	4.6	Lung trachea or bronchial cancer	168,206	7.27
Motor vehicle accidents	1,393,278	4.2	Cerebrovascular Disease	161,678	6.98
Unipolar major depression	1,370,285	4.1	COPD	99,982	4.32
Lung trachea or bronchial cancer	1,362,712	4.1	Lower respiratory infections	84,319	3.64
COPD	1,253,491	3.8	Diabetes mellitus	62,452	2.70
Alcohol use	1,141,193	3.4	Cancer colon or rectum	61,189	2.64
HIV	956,418	2.9	Breast cancer	46,649	2.02
Diabetes mellitus	946,291	2.9	Motor vehicle accidents	43,735	1.89
Osteoarthritis	942,682	2.8	Dementia and other degenerative and hereditary CNS disorders	43,190	1.87
Dementia and other degenerative and hereditary CNS disorders	889,242	2.7	Hypertension and hypertensive heart disease	39,589	1.71
Congenital Abnomalities	761,951	2.3	Prostate cancer	36,667	1.58
Homicide and Violence	714,621	2.2	Self-inflicted	31,725	1.37
Self-inflicted	674,443	2.0	HIV	31,188	1.35
Asthma	665,103	2.0	Cancer pancreas	29,494	1.27
Drug use	543,841	1.6	Inflammatory Cardiac	29,066	1.26
Breast cancer	514,786	1.6	Lymphomas	26,443	1.14
Conditions arising during the perinatal period	493,958	1.5	Cirrhosis of the liver	25,488	1.10
Cancer colon or rectum	483,931	1.5	Nephritis or nephrosis	24,569	1.06
Cirrhosis of the liver	411,539	1.2	Homicide and Violence	22,351	0.01

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