2006-10-10 01:29:41 · 26 answers · asked by Anonymous in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Other - Diseases
Death kills most people, although the disease of war is doing a good job at the present time.
2006-10-10 01:39:37 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
TEN LEADING CAUSES OF DEATH, MID-1990s
(1) Heart Disease
(2) Malignant Neoplasms
(3) Cerebrovascular Disease
(4) Accidents & Adverse Effects
(5) Pneumonia
(6) Atherosclerosis
(7) Mental Disorders
(8) Senility Without Psychosis
(9) Diabetes Mellitus
(10) Embolism & Thrombosis
2006-10-10 01:32:33 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Humorous:
Life....because "Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
Serious:
The most up to date information I can find on this is in the 1997 World Health Organisation's Annual Report (see sources for link)
In 1997:
52.2 million people died
17.3m were due to infectious and parasitic diseases of which HIV/AIDS accounted for 2.3m.
15.3m died from 'circulatory diseases'. This is also a combination of various diseases, which could be further divided and sub categorised almost ad infinitum until each category accounted for a much smaller percentage of the total. However, you can't get such accurate data on a worldwide basis. WHO have subdivided it into:
Coronary Heart Disease: 7.2m
Cerbrovascular Disease: 4.6m
Other Heart Disease: 3.0m
I would say that "Vascular disease" which would include Coronary and cerbro- and also peripheral (not included in WHO data) is a disease entity with a common cause (atherosclerosis) and therefore caused the death of more than 11.8m peole in 1997.
A more recent WHO report (2004) states that HIV/AIDS became the leading cause of death in the 15 - 59 age range. This is quite a specific statement, and if it had surpased vascular disease, they would have stated it as such.
SO Although AIDS related deaths is certainly on the rise, it would have to have had a serious increase from 2.3m to rival the 11.8m caused by vascular disease (or the 15m of "circulatory disease")
My Answer: Vascular disease or Atherosclerosis
2006-10-10 03:34:22 · answer #3 · answered by Dr_J 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Heart disease
2006-10-10 01:33:31 · answer #4 · answered by carol j 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Religion
2006-10-10 01:30:59 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm going to make an educated guess because I see a huge number of these kinds of people at our and area hospitals, cardiovascular diseases.
2006-10-10 01:32:09 · answer #6 · answered by tikizgirl 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Everybody shut up, it's heart disease. Because as Americans we are lazy as hell. Just keep eating those fries, boys and girls -you're on the fast track to an early demise too.
2006-10-10 02:41:43 · answer #7 · answered by vamedic4 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In the western world it has to be Heart disease
2006-10-11 13:07:52 · answer #8 · answered by jan s 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Infection. Nosocomial or acquired infection
Most people who are hospitalised died not fromtheir original disease but with complications which arised from acquired hospital infection
2006-10-10 01:32:54 · answer #9 · answered by Terry Yucky 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
heart disease
2006-10-10 01:31:00 · answer #10 · answered by frenziedmonkey 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋