Women's Health

Figures & data

Figure 1. Life expectancy at birth in the United States for all races by sex. Data from Centers for Disease Control. Accessed 26 December 2013 from: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/hus/hus12.pdf#017.

Table I. Leading causes of death by sex for all races in the United States 2009.

Rank	Males	%	Females	%
1	Heart disease	25.2	Heart disease	24.0
2	Cancer	24.4	Cancer	22.2
3	Unintentional injuries	6.2	Stroke	6.3
4	Chronic lower respiratory diseases	5.3	Chronic lower respiratory diseases	5.9
5	Stroke	4.3	Alzheimer's disease	4.5
6	Diabetes	2.9	Unintentional injuries	3.5
7	Suicide	2.4	Diabetes	2.8
8	Influenza & pneumonia	2.1	Influenza & pneumonia	2.3
9	Kidney disease	2.0	Kidney disease	2.0
10	Alzheimer's disease	2.0	Septicemia	1.6

Data from http://www.cdc.gov/women/lcod/ and http://www.cdc.gov/men/lcod/2009/LCODrace_ethnicity2009.pdf

Table II. Causes of pregnancy-related death in the US, 2006–2009.

	%
Cardiovascular diseases	14.6
Infection/sepsis	14.0
Non-cardiovascular diseases, (e.g. infectious, respiratory, gastrointestinal, endocrine, hematologic)	11.9
Cardiomyopathy	11.8
Hemorrhage	11.0
Hypertensive disorders of pregnancy	9.9
Thrombotic pulmonary embolism	9.4
Cerebrovascular accidents	6.1
Amniotic fluid embolism	5.4
Anesthesia complications	0.6

From [4].

Table III. Ten leading causes of death by cancer, US 2012. Estimates are rounded to the nearest 10 and exclude basal and squamous cell skin cancers and in situ carcinoma except urinary bladder.

Males		%	Females		%
Lung & bronchus	87,750	29	Lung & bronchus	72,590	26
Prostate	28,170	9	Breast	39,510	14
Colon & rectum	26,470	9	Colon & rectum	25,220	9
Pancreas	18,850	6	Pancreas	18,540	7
Liver & intrahepatic bile duct	13,980	5	Ovary	15,500	6
Leukemia	13,500	4	Leukemia	10,040	4
Esophagus	12,040	4	Non-Hodgkin lymphoma	8,620	3
Urinary bladder	10,510	3	Uterine corpus	8,010	3
Non-Hodgkin lymphoma	10,320	3	Liver & intrahepatic bile duct	6,570	2
Kidney & renal pelvis	8,650	3	Brain & other nervous system	5,980	2
All sites	301,820	100	All sites	275,370	100

Data from Siegel R, Naishadham D, Jemal A. Cancer statistics, 2012. CA Cancer J Clin 2012;62: 10–29 [8].

Table IV. Prevalence of the top 10 chronic diseases among women in the US.

	Prevalence (age > 18 years)^a
	%	million
Cardiovascular disease (including hypertension)	38.5	42.0
Hypertension	32.9	36.3
Intimate partner violence (lifetime)	26.4	30.2
Obesity	25.2	29.5
Smoking	17.5	20.5
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, COPD^b	10.7	9.0
Diabetes	7.3	8.5
Osteoporosis	17.8	7.8
Psychological distress	3.4	3.8
Breast cancer	2.1	2.5

^aThe age group for obesity (20+) and osteoporosis (50+).

^bCOPD includes both moderate obstructive lung disease and mild obstructive lung disease.

Data from [9].

Centers for Disease Control. Accessed 26 December 2013 from: http://www.cdc.gov/reproductivehealth/maternalinfanthealth/pregcomplications.htm

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