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Big killer

In public health, a big killer is a disease or other major cause of loss of
human life. Examples include:

   * Cancer: 23 % of deaths
   * Circulatory diseases: 36 %.
   * Diabetes : 1/3 of heart attack people suffer diabetes.
   * Infectious diseases : AIDS and tuberculosis
   * Mental illness : 30 % of people in the community suffers one. Prevalent
     are Parkinson's disease and Alzheimer's disease
   * Traffic accidents

Ten Leading Causes of Death in the United States in the year 2000:

  1. Heart disease: 710,760
  2. Cancer: 553,091
  3. Stroke: 167661
  4. Chronic lower respiratory disease: 122,009
  5. Accidents: 97,900
  6. Diabetes: 69,301
  7. Pneumonia/Influenza: 65,313
  8. Alzheimer's disease: 49,558
  9. Nephritis, nephrotic syndrome, and nephrosis: 37,251
 10. Septicemia: 31,224

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