Every year, the World Health Organization consolidates and compares data obtained through the work of medical statisticians. Thus, world mortality statistics are compiled and TOP diseases and other causes that lead to a reduction in population are compiled.
And if in developed countries there are special systems and bodies that collect and systematize data from medical institutions, then in low-income countries and subsidized regions with analytics, everything is very scarce. For this reason, biased and incomplete data fall into WHO. So it turns out that the main statistics say deaths from AIDS, oncology and diseases of the cardiovascular system, while there are a number of other deadly diseases.
We give an example of the 10 most common ailments that increase mortality statistics.
10. Diarrhea
And here you may have a sensible question - how ordinary diarrhea or food poisoning can lead to death? Unless it will be intoxication with poisonous mushrooms or an overdose of drugs. Unfortunately, often diarrhea has a bacterial and infectious nature, and even can occur in a chronic form. That is why the advanced stage of the disease leads to disruption of the digestive organs, severe dehydration of the body. In recent years, there has been a tendency to reduce mortality from this disease. But 3 years ago, the disease claimed almost one and a half million patients in one year alone, which is a very serious indicator. It is interesting that a competent food culture and hand hygiene will help reduce the risk - but these are such simple preventive measures.
9. Lower respiratory tract infection
This group combines such serious diseases as bronchitis of various forms (capillary and acute), whooping cough, lung abscess, dangerous pneumonia and, of course, epidemiological flu. This group leads to increased mortality of vulnerable groups, in particular children and adults. In 2015, according to the healthcare organization, more than 3 million people died from it. Treatment of infectious pathologies involves the use of strong antibiotics, which also have side effects and undermine the patient's immunity.
8. Tuberculosis
A dangerous disease caused by a bacterium affects an active and active population, which leads to a reduction in the gene pool and the country's potential. Almost 95% of tuberculosis deaths occur in developing countries. Two years ago, about a million children under the age of 14 fell ill in the world, and 250 thousand of them eventually died. It is known that one fifth of adult patients killed by tuberculosis smoked cigarettes, hookah or chewed tobacco, which proves the influence of bad habits on mortality from the disease. The greatest spread of bacteria is observed in Asia (up to 45% of cases), as well as in developing countries (Africa, Indonesia, Philippines, Pakistan, India, etc.).
7. Alzheimer's disease and other mental disorders
Mortality from pathologies associated with dementia is steadily increasing in the world. It is noted that every 5 years, mortality from Alzheimer's disease and similar disorders advances in the ranking by two positions, and if in 2000 it was in 9th place, killing about 0.15 million people annually, then in 2015 it entered the top three causes of death. The proportion between the sexes remains - women get sick and die about 2 times more often than men.
6. Traffic accidents
Since the invention of vehicles, people have died and continue to die from traffic accidents. Someone falls asleep while driving, others are in a state of intoxication, others do not fasten themselves and small children, others simply turned out to be accidental victims of incidents. Statistics from three years ago show that more than 75% of citizens are males. In 2015, 1.3 million died in road accidents. By the way, in countries with a low standard of living, the death rate from road injuries reaches about 28.5 per 100 thousand people. The global coefficient is only 18.3.
5. COPD
One of the leading causes of death in the highly developed countries of the USA and Europe are respiratory diseases. For example, about 5% of the world's population suffers from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. About 3 million people take the disease each year, and mortality tends to increase due to increasing tobacco consumption and early aging of the body of modern people.
4. Diabetes
This endocrine pathology periodically holds the 3rd place in terms of mortality. Like its owners, the disease also “gains weight” every year - for example, over the past three decades, the number of diabetics in the world has increased by about 4 times. And if in 2000 about a million people died from the disease, in 2015 the figure exceeded 1.5. 5 years ago, the total number of patients was just over 380 million people, but scientists predict that by 2030 this number could double. Diabetes mellitus is more characteristic for economically developed countries where there is no food culture.
3. Stroke
Surprisingly, people died less often from a stroke of the brain than they did in the past 15 years. Nevertheless, a year ago, the disease took away more than 1.1 million from life. On average, about 38% of those who died from cardiovascular pathologies are stroke patients. Doctors nevertheless predict an increase in the mortality trend, as the average life expectancy in men decreases and their health worsens.
2. Cancer of the lungs, trachea and bronchi
Among all cancer pathologies that are considered the most difficult to treat and have a high risk of relapse, cancer of the lungs and respiratory system as a whole is the most common. For example, in Russia it occupies about 17% of cases of all oncological diseases. Three years ago, the disease took away about 1.7 million people from the world. It is noted that men die from cancer of the upper respiratory tract more often than women. Perhaps this is due to the culture of tobacco use, which still has some gender dependence.
1. Coronary heart disease
According to health organizations, among cardiovascular diseases, coronary disease most often leads to death. For example, in the United States in 2013, about 42% of patients with cardiac pathologies died from it. Over the past 15 years, diseases of the heart and blood vessels are leading in the causes of mortality. Also in recent decades, there has been a tendency to increase the risk of death from a chronic form of cerebral ischemia and ischemic disease in elderly male patients.
Such statistics help health authorities determine future strategies and tactics. In some countries, programs for the prevention of prevailing diseases are being launched, and resources are being allocated to critical areas of medicine to stimulate research and search for new drugs.