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WHAT KILLS US: The Leading Causes Of Death From 1900-2010
Business Insider ^ | 06/23/2012 | Henry Blodget

Posted on 06/24/2012 6:33:54 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

Death rates 1900 and 2010

The New England Journal Of Medicine

The New England Journal of Medicine takes a look at the leading causes of death in the U.S. from 1900 to 2010.

The change is interesting, as is our ever-increasing longevity--something that scientists think may now reverse as a result of the global obesity epidemic.

We've laid the findings out for you in a series of charts (and you can head over to the NEJM's excellent interactive graphic if you want to fiddle).

(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...


TOPICS: Health/Medicine; History; Society
KEYWORDS: causeofdeath; death; disease
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1 posted on 06/24/2012 6:34:05 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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We've made great progress in areas like infant mortality, and infectious disease.

Certainly we have made progress in heart disease and cancer, but not nearly as much. For all the money we have spent on cancer, I have to say that I think the return on that investment has been disappointing.

2 posted on 06/24/2012 6:38:59 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy
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To: SeekAndFind
... as a result of the global obesity epidemic
Global? I thought the rest of the world was going hungry while we "selfish/arrogant" Americans stuffed our faces?
3 posted on 06/24/2012 6:40:07 AM PDT by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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About seven years ago, number three son of my parents had a heart attack and, for two minutes or so, was dead. He was 38, in spectacular shape (for a guy who’s 5’5”, a 54” chest, always ate properly, worked out, no smoking/drinking). He’s since recovered, and if possible, lives a better life than he once did. At work ever since, when coworkers might complain of some small genuine or imagined slight in conversation, he would start off by asking, “You know what kills me?” And invariably his audience would say, “what?” My brother would finish: “heart attacks,” smile, and walk away. ;)

I know this hasn’t much to do with your good post, but it reminded me of his doing this. Life is short, and precious.


4 posted on 06/24/2012 6:41:40 AM PDT by sayuncledave (et Verbum caro factum est (And the Word was made flesh))
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To: SeekAndFind

The differential in cancer is astounding. Of course, dying from one of the other diseases first probably precluded death from cancer in 1900.


5 posted on 06/24/2012 6:43:24 AM PDT by fwdude ( You cannot compromise with that which you must defeat.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Considering medical knowledge in 1900, I would bet that the cause of a great number of deaths were mis-diagnosed.


6 posted on 06/24/2012 6:43:31 AM PDT by meyer (It's 1860 all over again - the taxpayer is the new "N" word)
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For all the money we have spent on cancer, I have to say that I think the return on that investment has been disappointing.
I couldn't agree more, and it's not just cancer.
The Jerry Lewis Telethon for Muscular Dystrophy has raised about a $2.5 BILLION dollars in the last 40 years.
Where's the progress/cure?
7 posted on 06/24/2012 6:45:13 AM PDT by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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They did not start getting fat until we started importing our fast food businesses into their countries. And started giving them welfare, so they would NO longer have to hunt or gather food.

And those side effect riddled drugs could be the cause of a lot of the illnesses that are now leading cause of death. Always research a new drug BEFORE you fill the RX. Saves you a lot of side effects to deal with, and you won’t think you have a new disease.


8 posted on 06/24/2012 6:46:15 AM PDT by GailA (IF U don't/won't keep your promises to the Military, U won't keep them to the public)
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To: sayuncledave
At work ever since, when coworkers might complain of some small genuine or imagined slight in conversation, he would start off by asking, “You know what kills me?” And invariably his audience would say, “what?” My brother would finish: “heart attacks,” smile, and walk away. ;)

My favorite thing to do is, when I'm cracking jokes, if someone happens to say, "You kill me!", I always look at them strangely, cock my head at an odd angle, and say, "No...not YET...."

9 posted on 06/24/2012 6:48:58 AM PDT by Lazamataz (People who resort to Godwin's Law are just like Hitler.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Could the fact that cancer is now more prevalent be because of our longer life spans? Could it be simply that we live long enough to get it?


10 posted on 06/24/2012 6:49:09 AM PDT by preacher (Communism has only killed 100 million people: Let's give it another chance!)
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Government was the biggest killer in the 20th Century: Hitler, Stalin, Mao, et. al.

Islam is working hard to become number one in the 21st.


11 posted on 06/24/2012 6:51:29 AM PDT by Neever
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I note that suicides have risen dramatically.

Perhaps we need more Diptheria. Perhaps those who are suicidal are upset about that.

12 posted on 06/24/2012 6:52:24 AM PDT by Lazamataz (People who resort to Godwin's Law are just like Hitler.)
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Try getting a motorized wheel chair out of them...my cousin’s son had MD, needed one, all they offered was what he had standard wheel chair. He did live well past what was expected, but did it bed ridden and unable to speak.

Then take a look at Susan G Komen....your donation was suppose to go for breast cancer research..she funnels it off to Planned Parenthood.

Red Cross we know their track record from returning WW2 Soldiers and from what they did with the donations when 9/11 happened.

Only place I know of that has made great inroads on fighting cancer is St. Judes. 80% or more cure rate. And it is FREE to the families of the stricken children, from all over the world.


13 posted on 06/24/2012 6:52:56 AM PDT by GailA (IF U don't/won't keep your promises to the Military, U won't keep them to the public)
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Oh yeah, it’s all the fault of the big bad US, we are the omnipotent bad guy who controls the world/sarc


14 posted on 06/24/2012 6:57:09 AM PDT by yldstrk ( My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: SeekAndFind

A couple of years ago I read a study that said among the Top 3 killers was drug overdose. Not heroin etc but people (mostly older) being over prescribed.


15 posted on 06/24/2012 6:59:00 AM PDT by albie
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To: sayuncledave
A direct correlation has been found between people with very large chest sizes and heart attacks.

Some researchers believe that the large chest sizes are caused by internal pressures forcing the chest walls outward and those same forces affect the heart by squeezing it and obstructing blood flow.

I have always had a fairly large chest size of 48” back while I was in the army and I was diagnosed back then with severe cardiac arrhythmia's. Those arrhythmia's are so severe that I do have a service connected disability because of them.

They have also lead to be being declared totally disabled and eligible for Social Security disability.

Among those cardiac problems is a Right Bundle Branch problem which varies from day to day. Some days it is present and some days it is not. It has been diagnosed as bot incomplete and complete.

I do play all brass musical instruments and I was in army bands during my service time. One discipline we had to practice was breath control which was to develop the ability to take fewer but deeper breathes.

I have noticed that when I breathe very deeply, it does affect the blood flow and I can actually hear the difference including missed beats.

I suspect that the expansion of the lungs within the confines of the chest may be compressing the heart as well as the arteries thereby restricting the blood flow.

16 posted on 06/24/2012 6:59:19 AM PDT by dglang
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Where’s the progress/cure? ....Why do you want to put all those people out of business?


17 posted on 06/24/2012 7:02:03 AM PDT by Safetgiver
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To: SeekAndFind

I think that dying is Nature’s way of telling us to slow down.


18 posted on 06/24/2012 7:02:17 AM PDT by SkyDancer ("Ambition Without Talent Is Sad - Talent Without Ambition Is Worse")
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To: SeekAndFind
US ranks 50th in life expectancy compared to other countries.
19 posted on 06/24/2012 7:04:50 AM PDT by opentalk
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Could the fact that cancer is now more prevalent be because of our longer life spans? Could it be simply that we live long enough to get it?

I once read that if nothing else kills you, cancer will. Eventually our body's mechanisms that kill off the renegade cancer cells breaks down, but most of us die of something else before that happens.

Noting an increase in cancer deaths in children without noting the decrease in deaths from other causes, Rachel Carson started the process that led to the banning of DDT - causing untold numbers of deaths in developing countries from Malaria.

20 posted on 06/24/2012 7:05:11 AM PDT by KosmicKitty (WARNING: Hormonally crazed woman ahead!!)
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