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In 2022, approximately 1.48 million deaths occurred in Brazil. (statista.com)
Between August 2021 and July 2022, COVID-19 was a leading cause of death in children and young people in the US, ranking eighth overall. (disabled-world.com)
The month with the highest number of COVID-19-related deaths in 0 - 19 year-olds was January 2022 at 160. (disabled-world.com)
For instance, between 1 August 2021 and 31 July 2022, the COVID-19 death rate among all ages in the US was 109 per 100,000. (disabled-world.com)
CP) Statistics reveal that abortion was the leading cause of death worldwide for the fourth year in a row, as the number of abortions nearly quadrupled the number of deaths from infectious diseases in 2022. (christiantoday.com)
The second leading cause of death in 2022, as identified by the Worldometer, was communicable diseases, causing nearly 13 million casualties. (christiantoday.com)
The deaths attributed to infectious diseases, as well as the more than 8 million deaths caused by cancer, the approximately 5 million fatalities triggered by smoking, the roughly 2.5 million alcohol-related deaths and the nearly 2 million deaths caused by AIDS this year combined add up to less than the number of lives lost to abortion in 2022. (christiantoday.com)
Worldometer identified the total number of deaths worldwide in 2022 as just over 67 million. (christiantoday.com)
That figure does not include the number of abortions, but if it did, the number of worldwide deaths in 2022 would exceed 100 million. (christiantoday.com)
Hypertensive diseases are the fifth leading cause of death in the Philippines in 2022, data from the Department of Health showed. (gmanetwork.com)
According to Saleema Refran's report on '24 Oras', this is despite the decrease in deaths by hypertensive complications from 48,000 in 2021 to 35,000 in 2022. (gmanetwork.com)

Of the more than 6.3 million deaths of kids under age five in 2013, more than one million resulted from preterm problems. (voanews.com)
The pathogens were associated with 7.7 million deaths - 13.6 percent of the global total - in 2019, the year before the Covid-19 pandemic took off. (inquirer.net)

Moreover, the estimated number of deaths attributed to cancer reached almost 260,000 cases in Brazil in 2020, with lung and breast cancer accounting for most of these casualties. (statista.com)
PPH was not a leading cause of maternal deaths in Kerala only during two years: 2019-2020, when suicides took over marginally and 2015-2016 when respiratory illnesses took the lead. (org.in)
Seventeen of the 133 maternal deaths recorded in 2019-2020 were due to PPH and 19 were due to suicide. (org.in)
In 2019-2020, it recorded 25 deaths, followed by Kottayam (13), Thiruvananthapuram (13) and Palakkad (12). (org.in)
Between 2010 and 2020, nine per cent of all maternal deaths in Kerala were due to suicide. (org.in)

Paris, France - Bacterial infections are the second leading cause of death worldwide, accounting for one in eight of all deaths in 2019, the first global estimate of their lethality revealed on Tuesday. (inquirer.net)
The FBI re-opened its investigation into Brooks' death in 2019. (newser.com)
More than 10% of all premature deaths in Brazil in 2019 were attributed to an increase in the consumption of "ultra-processed foods" (UPFs). (indiatimes.com)

Blanks should have been issued for the exercise, but instead, live ammunition was used, resulting in the death and injuries. (jamaica-gleaner.com)
TOKYO - Honda Motor Co. is recalling 304,000 vehicles globally for air-bags that may inflate with too much pressure in a crash, send metal and plastic pieces flying and cause injuries or deaths. (foxnews.com)
The commission's 2017 Annual Report of ATV-Related Deaths and Injuries shows that 831 people died in Texas from injuries suffered in ATV accidents from 1982 to 2017. (kwtx.com)
But it only has 50 full-time investigators to look into millions of injuries and deaths -- 50 investigators," he continued ("World News Tonight," ABC, 4/14). (californiahealthline.org)

Legal and drug policy experts say decades of experience during the war on drugs has shown that harsher sentences will do little to solve the runaway surge in overdose deaths. (latimes.com)
Escambia County has seen more overdose deaths this year than any other county in Florida. (wkrg.com)

In Sub-Saharan Africa, there were 230 deaths per 100,000 population from the bacterial infections. (inquirer.net)
As Statista's Anna Fleck details below, while heart disease, cancer and Covid-19 claimed by far the highest numbers of lives in 2021 (which was the latest available data), Alzheimer's disease ranked in a high seventh place with 119,399 deaths that year, equating to 31 people per 100,000 population. (zerohedge.com)

The mother of former Northwestern University basketball player Jordan Hankins has filed a federal lawsuit against sorority Alpha Kappa Alpha, alleging her daughter was a victim of hazing by sorority members that caused severe anxiety and depression and led to Hankins' suicide in January 2017. (chicagotribune.com)
The midwifery-led unit in Charles Street reopened last month after closing midway through 2017 due to staffing concerns. (expressandstar.com)
The estimated number of malaria deaths in 2017 stood at 435 000, similar to 2016. (who.int)

Although COVID-19 amplifies the impacts of other diseases (such as pneumonia and influenza), this study focuses on deaths directly caused by COVID-19 rather than those where COVID-19 was a contributing cause. (disabled-world.com)
COVID-19 ranked ahead of influenza and pneumonia, with a death rate of 0.6 per 100,000. (disabled-world.com)
since it can result in the inhalation of food or liquids to the lungs, which in turn can lead to pneumonia, since it more difficult to fight off bacterial infections. (zerohedge.com)
In fact, the researchers say even their most conservative estimates make ADR the sixth leading cause of death in the U.S. -- ranking behind heart disease, cancer, stroke, pulmonary disease and accidents -- but causing more deaths than pneumonia and diabetes. (californiahealthline.org)

An initial autopsy couldn't determine the cause of death. (newser.com)
Data are also available by place of death, year, week, or month of death, and whether an autopsy was performed. (cdc.gov)

If someone trips and accidentally disconnects a ventilator power cord and the patient dies, the cause listed on the death certificate is likely to be respiratory failure. (forbes.com)
In a few witnessed cases, the immediate event before death was respiratory arrest (obstructive and central). (medscape.com)

INADEQUATE safety measures and systemic complacency within the CSIRO contributed to the death of a microbiologist who was trapped in a laboratory chamber with virtually no oxygen, a coroner has found. (theage.com.au)
Coroner Audrey Jamieson, who held the inquest in June last year, said yesterday Mr Nguyen's death was preventable, inexplicable and 'can only be attributed to a level of complacency' at the laboratory. (theage.com.au)
A coroner listed Soung's death as the result of a heart attack. (casino.org)
Gross failure contributed to the death of baby boy who died hours after being born, a coroner has ruled. (expressandstar.com)
Coroner Lees said Mrs Johnson should never have been allowed to give birth in pool in the first place once midwives at Walsall Manor Hospital's midwifery-led unit realised the correct equipment was not available. (expressandstar.com)
The officially reported cause of death was drowning, although the coroner noted that, when he was found, Havenith's head was not submerged. (wikipedia.org)

Mortality data from the death certificates are coded by the states and provided to NCHS through the Vital Statistics Cooperative Program or coded by NCHS from copies of the original death certificates provided to NCHS by the State registration offices. (cdc.gov)
It is important to note that it can take several weeks for death records to be submitted to National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), processed, coded, and tabulated. (cdc.gov)
Death counts for earlier weeks are continually revised and may increase or decrease as new and updated death certificate data are received from the states by NCHS. (cdc.gov)

A recent study indicates that the increasing consumption of highly processed foods or ultra-processed foods like sliced white bread and sugary soft drinks has been linked to premature, preventable deaths. (indiatimes.com)
Dr. Nilson said, "Consumption of UPFs is associated with many disease outcomes, such as obesity, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, some cancers, and other diseases, and it represents a significant cause of preventable and premature deaths among Brazilian adults. (indiatimes.com)

Race and Hispanic origin are reported separately on the death certificate. (cdc.gov)

Honda said there have been 20 accidents so far related to this problem, including two deaths in the U.S. in 2009. (foxnews.com)

The problem, Makary and Daniel conclude in their paper, is that in the United States, as in 116 other countries, death certificates rely on assigning an International Classification of Disease (ICD) code to the cause of death. (forbes.com)

Suicide, or intentional self-harm, was the 10th leading cause of death overall in the United States in 2013, accounting for 41,149 deaths. (livescience.com)
However, suicide is the second leading cause of death for people ages 15 to 24, and people ages 25 to 34. (livescience.com)

But it's lower than the more than 400,000 deaths estimated in a 2013 article by John James, a Texas man who created Patient Safety America after, he says, his 19-year-old son died in 2002 "as a result of uninformed, careless and unethical care by cardiologists at a hospital. (forbes.com)

Makary and Daniel's estimate is far higher than the 44,000 to 98,000 annual hospital deaths from medical errors estimated in a 1999 report by the Institute of Medicine (IOM). (forbes.com)
Deaths for 1999 and beyond are classified using the Tenth Revision (ICD-10). (cdc.gov)

The provisional deaths are based on a current flow of mortality data in the National Vital Statistics System. (cdc.gov)

The rise in deaths from preterm birth complications actually coincides with a dramatic decline in the worldwide mortality rate of children under five. (voanews.com)
Provisional mortality statistics by multiple cause of death are available on WONDER at the national, state and county level by single race categories, for deaths occurring in years 2018 through last week. (cdc.gov)
Statistics representing one through nine (1-9) deaths are suppressed, in the provisional mortality online database for years 2018 and later. (cdc.gov)
The mortality data are based on information from all death certificates filed in the fifty states and the District of Columbia. (cdc.gov)

The Pentagon said Thursday that an investigation into the deaths of four American soldiers in Niger last year found "individual, organizational and institutional failures. (kpbs.org)

With more than 378,000 deaths that year, diseases of the circulatory system, which include heart and cerebrovascular diseases among other ailments, were the leading cause of death in the South American country. (statista.com)
Like many diseases, COVID-19 death rates followed a U-shaped pattern across this age range. (disabled-world.com)
The people of Gaza, who have already suffered enough, now face death from starvation and diseases that could be easily treated with a functioning health system. (who.int)

Drug overdoses, which also include deadly synthetic drugs like fentanyl and its analogues, killed more than 64,000 Americans in 2016 and now rank as the leading cause of death for Americans under 50, according to federal authorities. (latimes.com)

Overall, deaths in children and young people were higher during the Delta and Omicron waves than previous waves (pre-July 2021), likely reflecting the higher numbers infected during these periods. (disabled-world.com)

The data are based on deaths in 2013, the most recent year for which statistics are available. (livescience.com)
Already in her first year she has seen more deaths and sicker patients than she ever expected - but it's the absence of patients' families that is the hardest. (medscape.com)
When Unsolved Mysteries was revived last year , show producers said they hoped to solve the April 2004 death of a 23-year-old Black and Hispanic man found in a creek following a party in Kansas. (newser.com)
In my 26-year career, I have not seen as much death from overdose as I have in such a short amount of time as I've been in Escambia County. (wkrg.com)
Infants aged less than one year were the most vulnerable, with a COVID-19 death rate of 4 per 100,000. (disabled-world.com)
COVID-19 death rates were highest in infants aged less than one year (4.3 per 100,000), second highest in those aged 15-19 years (1.8 per 100,000), and lowest in children aged 5 -9 years (0.4 per 100,000). (disabled-world.com)
They estimate that more than a quarter of a million U.S. hospital patients die each year as a result of a medical error, making it the third leading cause of death, behind only heart disease and cancer . (forbes.com)
The report titled Confidential Review of Maternal deaths was released last year. (org.in)
Malappuram district has remained consistent in recording the highest maternal deaths every year since 2011. (org.in)
The year before that, Malappuram recorded 43 deaths, followed by Kozhikode (20), Palakkad (18) and Thrissur (16). (org.in)
Total maternal deaths recorded at the start of the decade stood at 186, which came down to 133 last year. (org.in)

The vast majority the deaths from direct complications of preterm births occurred within the first 28 days of life - with an additional 125,000 deaths occurring between one month and five years. (voanews.com)

Leads the analytical toxicology research group, research projects and advisory services in laboratory analysis. (cdc.gov)

COVID-19 was the top cause of death in children from an infectious disease in the same period. (disabled-world.com)
These results demonstrate that while it's rare for kids and teens to die in the US, COVID-19 is now the leading underlying cause of death from infectious disease for this age group. (disabled-world.com)

Dr. Andres de Francisco, interim executive director of the Geneva-based Partnership for Maternal Newborn and Child Health, said, "Over the last few years the proportion of deaths due to preterm births has been increasing. (voanews.com)
Moreover, a third of PPH deaths were recorded in caesarean births, highlighting "the importance of practicing safe caesarean section technique and postoperative monitoring. (org.in)

Martin was slapped with seven charges, including manslaughter in relation to McKenzie's death, and five counts of unlawful wounding in respect of five other police personnel injured during the training exercise. (jamaica-gleaner.com)
multiple counts of negligence, including wrongful death claims. (chicagotribune.com)
National provisional counts include deaths occurring within the 50 states and the District of Columbia that have been received and coded as of the date specified. (cdc.gov)

One of the more dramatic theories making the rounds on Twitter and in the media is that it was a spider bite two years ago that led to an infection and ultimately to his death. (go.com)
Ultimately, DFTD leads to death within 3-6 months of the first appearance of clinical symptoms 4 . (nature.com)

Nevertheless, in the pre-Delta period of the pandemic, COVID-19 still ranked as the ninth leading cause of death overall. (disabled-world.com)
Deaths caused by the coronavirus pandemic, which have become the subject of much media attention, were measured at 1,209,570 in a separate set of statistics compiled by Worldometer. (christiantoday.com)

The Independent Commissions of Investigations (INDECOM) has once again put on the front burner the "unacceptable" violent deaths of persons in state custody, arguing that despite comprehensive policy change, many in lock-ups are losing their lives at the hands of both agents of the State and fellow inmates. (jamaica-gleaner.com)

Despite reduction in number s in recent years, lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer deaths in the United States. (health.mil)
Assessment of COVID-19 as the underlying cause of death among children and young people aged 0 to 19 years in America. (disabled-world.com)
COVID-19 was the underlying cause of death for more than 940,000 people in the US, including over 1,300 deaths among children and young people aged 0-19 years. (disabled-world.com)
Northwestern remains deeply saddened by the death of Jordan Hankins two years ago, and we continue to send our kindest thoughts and condolences to her friends and family," the statement reads. (chicagotribune.com)
In all of those years, abortions were the leading cause of death around the world. (christiantoday.com)

Deaths in adults have resulted after ingestions of 1 to 32 g. (cdc.gov)

Kidney disorders including nephritis, nephrotic syndrome, and nephrosis were responsible for 47,112 deaths in 2013. (livescience.com)
The condition is characterized by abnormally high blood sugar levels, and can lead to kidney failure, blindness, heart disease and amputations of the lower extremities, such as the feet. (livescience.com)

Notably, evidence of a recent seizure does not exclude the diagnosis of SUDEP as long as death did not occur during the seizure. (medscape.com)
80% of these patients had a seizure immediately before death. (medscape.com)
[ 11 ] reported 38% of witnessed deaths to be an immediate consequence of a seizure attack. (medscape.com)

Because BAX lies at the crossroads of the cell's decision to live or die, drugs that directly activate BAX could kill diseased cells like in cancer and BAX-blocking drugs could potentially prevent unwanted cell death, such as in heart attack, stroke, and neurodegeneration," Walensky added. (medindia.net)

Stroke accounted for 128,978 deaths in 2013. (livescience.com)

That led to the collapse of the gambling infrastructure. (casino.org)

They have found a previously undetected trigger point on a naturally occurring "death protein" that helps the body get rid of unwanted or diseased cells. (medindia.net)
We performed a case-control bial drugs, inhibits bacterial protein synthesis by binding to study during a hospital outbreak of linezolid-resistant en- the 50S subunit of 23S rRNA. (cdc.gov)
Mefloquine binding to human acyl-CoA binding protein leads to redox stress-mediated apoptotic death of human neuroblastoma cells. (bvsalud.org)

That made them the second-leading cause of death after ischaemic heart disease, which includes heart attacks, the study said. (inquirer.net)

Postpartum haemorrhage (PPH) has been a leading cause of maternal deaths in Kerala for the better part of the last decade, according to a report prepared by the Kerala Federation of Obstetrics and Gynaecology. (org.in)
Operations caused the deaths of three civilians and injured three others in the southeastern province of Diyarbakır's Silvan district on Aug. 18, during a period when a curfew had been declared, according to a human rights report prepared by local civil society organizations. (hurriyetdailynews.com)
Possible SUDEP - SUDEP cannot be ruled out but evidence is insufficient regarding the circumstances of death and no postmortem report is available. (medscape.com)

The underlying cause-of-death is defined by the World Health Organization (WHO) as "the disease or injury which initiated the train of events leading directly to death, or the circumstances of the accident or violence which produced the fatal injury. (cdc.gov)

Diabetes accounted for 75,578 deaths in 2013. (livescience.com)

Data are based on death certificates for U.S. residents. (cdc.gov)
Therefore, the provisional data may be incomplete, and will likely not include all deaths that occurred during a given time period, especially for the more recent time periods. (cdc.gov)

Severe hypothermia can lead to death. (medlineplus.gov)

The new study suggests that about one-third of the population decline is due to hidden deaths in the wolf population, resulting from relaxed legal protections. (newswise.com)
COVID-19 was the underlying cause of 2% of deaths in children and young people (800 out of 43,000), with an overall death rate of 1.0 per 100,000 of the population aged 0-19. (disabled-world.com)

Mr Chasser told the inquest that human error and equipment failure had contributed to Mr Nguyen's death. (theage.com.au)
The inquest heard chest compressions had not been carried out at certain stages of the resuscitation process in the midwifery-led unit and there had been no airways management performed on Zachary while he was being transferred by ambulance to Walsall Manor Hospital. (expressandstar.com)

He said courts should impose the death penalty against the "big pushers, the ones who are really killing people. (latimes.com)
PENSACOLA, Fla. ( WKRG ) - Escambia County leads the state of Florida in the number of people dying from opioid overdose. (wkrg.com)
Monthly number of deaths in the US of children and young people (aged 0-19), where COVID-19 was listed as the cause of death on the death certificate. (disabled-world.com)
Compared with other age groups, the overall risk of death from COVID-19 was substantially lower in children and young people. (disabled-world.com)
[ 6 ] SUDEP accounts for 8-17% of deaths in people with epilepsy. (medscape.com)
The aim of the aWake Before Death project is to engage people of all ages in Clarence in the promotion and education of end-of-life planning, through the use of stories, music and the arts, to help build knowledge, awareness and capacity across the community in a sustainable way. (who.int)

Researchers estimate that a majority of these additional, uncounted deaths are due to something called cryptic poaching, where poachers hide evidence of illegal killings. (newswise.com)

Slayer co-founder Jeff Hanneman's death from liver failure on Thursday is still something of a mystery, but that hasn't stopped fans from speculating as to why his liver failed when he was only 49. (go.com)
But doctors say it's unlikely that such a past infection would have directly led to liver failure -- and his assumed spider bite might never have occurred. (go.com)
Slayer spokeswoman Heidi Robinson-Fitzgerald said the band was not currently releasing more information on Hannemen's health and was consulting with a doctor to determine what could have led to his liver failure. (go.com)

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