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Tuesday, December 30, 2008

What Will I Die From?

Basically, we have more than a 50% of dying from either cancer or heart disease.

*heart disease (30.3% of deaths)
*cancer (23.0%)
*cerebrovascular diseases including stroke (7.0%),
*chronic lower respiratory diseases (5.2%),
*accidents (4.1%),
*diabetes (2.9%),
*Alzheimer's (1.9%),
*kidney diseases (1.5%),
*septicemia (1.3%),
*all other causes (20.2%) [CDC NVSR 2001].

http://www.wrongdiagnosis.com/death/what.htm

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