What’s killing most Americans? Heart disease and cancer. In fact, heart disease and cancer still top the list according to a new report that revealed the top 10 causes of death from 2019 to 2023. The list also shows the impact COVID has made since 2020.
The report published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) stems from data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and includes other changes in the cause-of-death rankings. There are also five huge takeaways from this report. One interesting thing to consider is heart disease and cancer are still the leading causes of death and when it comes to heart disease, it’s been the No.
1 cause of death in the U.S., and it’s been that way for decades.
Though heart disease and cancer have declined since 2009, the fact is more than 650,000 Americans have died of cardiovascular disease in each of the past five years. Meanwhile, more than 613,000 people died from cancer last year alone. According to Dr.
Asaf Bitton , an associate professor of medicine and health care policy at Harvard Medical School, heart disease and cancer remain “really common,” also adding to Yahoo Life that, “heart disease and cancer really kill the most people.” Another interesting tidbit is that COVID is killing fewer people. Even though it was devastating in 2020, where COVID killed more than a million people in the U.
S., since then, the fatality rate has fallen. “When COVID arrived on the scene [in 2020], it became t.