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Diet & health
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Leading Causes of Death, U.S.
Blue shading indicates that a cause of death is related to nutrition; the light yellow indicates that it is related to alcohol.
1. Heart disease
2. Cancers
3. Strokes
4. Chronic lung disease
5.
Accidents
6. Diabetic mellitus
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OF TOTAL DEATHS
PERCENTAGE
7
Pneumonia and influenza
8. Alzheimer's disease
9. Kidney disease
10. Blood infections
SOURCE: National Center for Health Statistics.
28.0%
22.7%
6.4%
5.2%
4-5%
3.0%
2.7% 2.6%
1.7%
1.4%
Hypertension (high blood pressure), a nutrition-related cause of death, ranks at number 13
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