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From Brian Fung at The Atlantic<\/a><\/strong>:<\/p>\n

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The chart ranks the top ten causes of death for each year. In addition to the remarkable decline in mortality overall, it\u2019s also noticeable how heart disease and cancer have surged to become two of America\u2019s top killers. In 1900, cancer and heart disease accounted for 18 percent of all deaths. Today, that figure\u2019s jumped to 63 percent. In addition to being responsible for a greater share of deaths overall, the absolute number of people being killed by these chronic conditions has also grown, from 201 people out of every 100,000 in 1900 to nearly 380 per 100,000 today.<\/p>\n

Part of the increase can be traced to our increasingly sedentary lifestyles. But we shouldn\u2019t forget that vaccines, regular screenings, and other advances in medicine have drastically reduced the incidence of other ailments that once sealed many an American\u2019s fate. The way we\u2019ve chopped up and redefined some conditions has also changed the country\u2019s death profile. There\u2019s the seemingly endless \u201cdiscovery\u201d of new diseases. And it\u2019s worth pointing out that the rise of cancer and heart disease, as illnesses that generally affect people late in life, are themselves an indicator of improvements in a society\u2019s overall health. The fact that more people are living long enough to be diagnosed with cancer says something about how far we\u2019ve come.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"