Many believe the most common killers for Americans are cancer and heart disease. Is it? However, a new map reveals something else. It sheds light on what is killing people in each of the fifty states of United States.
The ten years data between 2001 and 2010 reveals most distinctive causes of death. The map highlights it in a colorful and provocative way.
A distinctive cause refers to the deaths that are rated higher compared to the national average.
Co-author of the study, Francis Boscoe, said the released map highlights some of the unusual things that are going on in United States.
He added the most distinctive cause of death in North Dakota, South Dakota, Maine and Wyoming is flu. Lung diseases were responsible for most of the deaths in mining states like West Virginia, Pennsylvania and Kentucky. In Connecticut and New York the main causes were inflammatory diseases of pelvic organs.
Surprisingly the law enforcement officers were responsible for higher deaths in Nevada, New Mexico and Oregon, and it included legal executions too.
The exact numbers varied from states to states like in Florida 15,000 deaths occurred due to HIV and the most distinctive deaths in Lousiana was only limited to 22 from syphilis.
“Although chronic-disease-prevention efforts should continue to emphasize the most common [national] conditions, an outlier map such as this one should also be of interest to public health professionals,” the researchers wrote in their report, published with the map in the May issue of the journal Preventing Chronic Disease.
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