Actual causes of death in the United States, 2000
- PMID: 15010446
- DOI: 10.1001/jama.291.10.1238
Actual causes of death in the United States, 2000
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- JAMA. 2005 Jan 19;293(3):298
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Correction: actual causes of death in the United States, 2000.JAMA. 2005 Jan 19;293(3):293-4. doi: 10.1001/jama.293.3.293. JAMA. 2005. PMID: 15657315 No abstract available.
Abstract
Context: Modifiable behavioral risk factors are leading causes of mortality in the United States. Quantifying these will provide insight into the effects of recent trends and the implications of missed prevention opportunities.
Objectives: To identify and quantify the leading causes of mortality in the United States.
Design: Comprehensive MEDLINE search of English-language articles that identified epidemiological, clinical, and laboratory studies linking risk behaviors and mortality. The search was initially restricted to articles published during or after 1990, but we later included relevant articles published in 1980 to December 31, 2002. Prevalence and relative risk were identified during the literature search. We used 2000 mortality data reported to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to identify the causes and number of deaths. The estimates of cause of death were computed by multiplying estimates of the cause-attributable fraction of preventable deaths with the total mortality data.
Main outcome measures: Actual causes of death.
Results: The leading causes of death in 2000 were tobacco (435 000 deaths; 18.1% of total US deaths), poor diet and physical inactivity (365 000 deaths; 15.2%) [corrected], and alcohol consumption (85 000 deaths; 3.5%). Other actual causes of death were microbial agents (75 000), toxic agents (55 000), motor vehicle crashes (43 000), incidents involving firearms (29 000), sexual behaviors (20 000), and illicit use of drugs (17 000).
Conclusions: These analyses show that smoking remains the leading cause of mortality. However, poor diet and physical inactivity may soon overtake tobacco as the leading cause of death. These findings, along with escalating health care costs and aging population, argue persuasively that the need to establish a more preventive orientation in the US health care and public health systems has become more urgent.
Comment in
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The immediate vs the important.JAMA. 2004 Mar 10;291(10):1263-4. doi: 10.1001/jama.291.10.1263. JAMA. 2004. PMID: 15010451 No abstract available.
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Modifiable behavioral factors as causes of death.JAMA. 2004 Jun 23;291(24):2941; author reply 2942-3. doi: 10.1001/jama.291.24.2941-b. JAMA. 2004. PMID: 15213197 No abstract available.
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Modifiable behavioral factors as causes of death.JAMA. 2004 Jun 23;291(24):2941; author reply 2942-3. doi: 10.1001/jama.291.24.2941-a. JAMA. 2004. PMID: 15213198 No abstract available.
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Modifiable behavioral factors as causes of death.JAMA. 2004 Jun 23;291(24):2941-2; author reply 2942-3. doi: 10.1001/jama.291.24.2941-c. JAMA. 2004. PMID: 15213199 No abstract available.
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Modifiable behavioral factors as causes of death.JAMA. 2004 Jun 23;291(24):2942; author reply 2942-3. doi: 10.1001/jama.291.24.2942-b. JAMA. 2004. PMID: 15213200 No abstract available.
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Modifiable behavioral factors as causes of death.JAMA. 2004 Jun 23;291(24):2942; author reply 2942-3. doi: 10.1001/jama.291.24.2942-a. JAMA. 2004. PMID: 15213201 No abstract available.
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