Soraya Ghebleh Statistics from the Centers for Disease

Control and Prevention

� Information for the U.S � 2010 data Leading Causes: Heart Disease, Cancer, Chronic Lower Respiratory Diseases, Stroke, Accidents, Alzheimer’s disease, Diabetes, Nephritis, Influenza and Pneumonia, Suicide

� 597,689 deaths

� 574,743 deaths

� 138,080 deaths

� 129,476 deaths

� 120,859 deaths

� 83,494 deaths

� 69,071 deaths

� 50,476 deaths

� 50,097

� 38,364 deaths