Heart Disease

Coronary Artery Disease Causes Most Deaths

Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, May 12th, 1997

Heart disease and stroke are the world's two leading causes of death, killing millions in the developing world as well as in wealthy nations.

The findings were based on the latest worldwide mortality statistics available, which showed that 50.4 million people died in 1990 - 53 percent of them men; 47 percent women.

Heart disease was the leading cause of death worldwide, accounting for 6.26 million deaths, said the report by researchers Christopher J. L. Murray and Alan D. Lopez, which appeared in the May 3, 1997 issue of the British medical magazine, The Lancet.

Of these deaths, 2.7 million were in industrialized nations and the...

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