According to the World Health Organization (WHO), it reports that heart disease, which has remained the leading cause of death at the global level for the last twenty years, is now killing more people than ever before. The WHO said, diabetes and dementia are also among the world’s top ten causes of death.
The WHO’s 2019 Global Health Estimates, released on Wednesday, said non-communicable diseases now make up 7 of the world’s top 10 causes of death, an increase from 4 of the 10 leading causes in 2000. The new data cover the period from 2000 to 2019.
Heart disease now represents 16 percent of total deaths from all causes and the number of deaths from heart disease increased by more than two million since 2000 to nearly 9 million in 2019. Diabetes and dementia enter the top 10 causes of death.
Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia are now among the top 10 causes of death worldwide, ranking 3rd in both the Americas and Europe in 2019. Women are disproportionally affected: globally, 65 percent of deaths from Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia are women. Deaths from diabetes also increased by 70 percent globally between 2000 and 2019, with an 80 percent rise in deaths among males, said.
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