Causes of Mortality in US

Causes of Mortality in US

Introduction

Mortality rate has shown a vast degree of fluctuations in the past years. This variance depends on different factors. The disease specified mortality depends on different factors, including the sex and racial background as two important factors.

Discussion

The leading causes of mortality in 1910

In 1910, the causes of mortality were slightly different as compared to the causes in the modern era. There are many diseases that were the reason behind the increasing mortality rate in the year of 12910. Amongst these, the leading ten causes that cause mortality in 1910 are as following

Pneumonia or influenza

Tuberculosis

GIT infection

Heart diseases

Cerebrovascular diseases

Nephropathies

Accidents

Cancer

Senility

Diphtheria

In 10910, the leading cause of mortality amongst the aforementioned causes was pneumonia or influenza. The percentage calculated was around two hundred and two, which is very high. Tuberculosis ranked second and gastrointestinal infections ranked third. The motor vehicle accidents accounted for 1.8 % of the total death in the following year while around 76% people died due to cancers and malignant neoplasms. However, the evident factor is that the cardiovascular diseases caused the highest death rates in the United States (www.infoplease.com)

The leading causes of mortality in 2010

The studies by the centre of disease control and prevention shows that the leading ten causes of mortality for the year 2010 are as following (CDC (2013)

Heart disease

Cancer

Chronic lower respiratory diseases

Stroke (cerebrovascular diseases)

Accidents

Alzheimer's disease

Diabetes

Nephritis, nephrotic syndrome, and nephrosis

Influenza and Pneumonia

Intentional self-harm (suicides)

Table:1

Index

Name of diseases

Death rate per 100,000 population

Disease causing mortality in 1910

Pneumonia or influenza

155.9

Tuberculosis

153.8

GIT infection

142.5

Heart diseases

371.9

Cerebrovascular diseases

106.9

nephropathies

88.6

Accidents

72.3

Cancer

76.264.0

Senility

50.2

diphthyeria

40.3

Disease causing mortality in 1910

Heart disease

597,689

Cancer

574,743

Chronic lower respiratory diseases

138,080

Stroke (cerebrovascular diseases)

129,476

Accidents

120,859

Alzheimer's disease

83,494

Diabetes

69,071

Nephritis, nephrotic syndrome, and nephrosis

50,476

Influenza and Pneumonia

50,097

Intentional self-harm (suicides)

38,364

(CDC, 2013)

Comparison of data

The comparative analysis shows that in the last 100 years, there has been a change in the mortality rate caused by the specific disease condition. In 1910,, the leading cause of death was infection with influenza or pneumonia, but in 2010, , the percentage of the infection was greatly reducing and the leading cause of death became the heart diseases.

Heart diseases have been gaining popularity as becoming an alarming factor causing millions of deaths, from the past few years.

Causes of mortality

Similarities and dissimilarities

In the past, the causes of mortality included the infection by microbes as the leading causes of death. The percentage has reduced to some degree but not completely eliminated. There are many microbial infections that are caused by the poor housing and sanitary conditions. As ...