The burden of disease and injury in the United States 1996

Table 11 Leading causes of death and YLL, both sexes, all races combined

		Deaths	%total
		2,314,689
1	Ischaemic heart disease	536,314	23.2%
2	Lung trachea or bronchial cancer	168,206	7.3%
3	Cerebrovascular Disease	161,678	7.0%
4	COPD	99,982	4.3%
5	Lower respiratory infections	84,319	3.6%
6	Diabetes mellitus	62,452	2.7%
7	Cancer colon or rectum	61,189	2.6%
8	Breast cancer	46,649	2.0%
9	Motor vehicle accidents	43,735	1.9%
10	Dementia and other degenerative and hereditary CNS disorders	43,190	1.9%
11	Hypertension and hypertensive heart disease	39,589	1.7%
12	Prostate cancer	36,667	1.6%
13	Self-inflicted	31,725	1.4%
14	HIV	31,188	1.3%
15	Cancer pancreas	29,494	1.3%
16	Inflammatory Cardiac	29,066	1.3%
17	Lymphomas	26,443	1.1%
18	Cirrhosis of the liver	25,488	1.1%
19	Nephritis or nephrosis	24,569	1.1%
20	Homicide and Violence	22,351	1.0%
	Sub-total	1,604,297	69.3%
		YLL	% total
	Total YLL	18,066,099
1	Ischaemic heart disease	2,858,744	15.8%
2	Lung trachea or bronchial cancer	1,301,182	7.2%
3	Motor vehicle accidents	1,027,005	5.7%
4	Cerebrovascular Disease	784,443	4.3%
5	HIV	718,975	4.0%
6	Self-inflicted	660,917	3.7%
7	Homicide and Violence	615,332	3.4%
8	COPD	526,219	2.9%
9	Conditions arising during the perinatal period	464,131	2.6%
10	Diabetes mellitus	450,913	2.5%
11	Breast cancer	450,327	2.5%
12	Cancer colon or rectum	409,534	2.3%
13	Lower respiratory infections	388,441	2.2%
14	Cirrhosis of the liver	321,588	1.8%
15	Congenital Abnomalities	318,948	1.8%
16	Inflammatory Cardiac	258,328	1.4%
17	Hypertension and hypertensive heart disease	241,073	1.3%
18	Lymphomas	233,048	1.3%
19	Poisoning	221,906	1.2%
20	Cancer pancreas	205,972	1.1%
	Sub-total	12,457,024	69.0%

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