All Annotations of Men's top 10 health threats: Mostly preventable - MayoClinic.com[Preview]

saved byJonathan Macagba on 2007-03-08

• Here's a snapshot of the 10 leading killers of American men in 2003, the most recent year for which these statistics are available from the CDC:

  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  Rank	Cause	Percentage of male deaths
  1	Heart disease	28.0
  2	Cancer	24.0
  3	Unintentional injuries	5.9
  4	Stroke	5.1
  5	Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)	5.1
  6	Diabetes	2.9
  7	Influenza and pneumonia	2.4
  8	Suicide	2.1
  9	Kidney disease	1.7
  10	Alzheimer's disease	1.5
  Total		78.7

• the average American man lives 5.3 fewer years than does the average woman. In 2003, male life expectancy was 74.8 years. Female life expectancy was 80.1 years.
• According to the American Heart Association, in 2004, over 410,000 men died of cardiovascular disease, the leading cause of death in both sexes. Because men usually develop heart disease 10 to 15 years earlier than women do, they're more likely to die of it in the prime of life. About one-fourth of all heart-disease-related deaths occur in men ages 35 to 65.
• In 2003, the CDC recorded nearly 288,000 men who died of cancer, the second-leading cause of death for both sexes. Lung cancer — 90 percent of it caused by cigarette smoking — is the most common cause of cancer death in both sexes.
• The CDC also notes that prostate cancer and colorectal cancer are the second- and third-leading causes of cancer death in men.
• In 2004, over 58,000 men died of stroke, according to the American Heart Association. Although stroke affects equal proportions of men and women, men have better chances of surviving than women do.