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  2. List of human disease case fatality rates - Wikipedia

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    Human infectious diseases may be characterized by their case fatality rate (CFR), the proportion of people diagnosed with a disease who die from it (cf. mortality rate).It should not be confused with the infection fatality rate (IFR), the estimated proportion of people infected by a disease-causing agent, including asymptomatic and undiagnosed infections, who die from the disease.

  3. List of causes of death by rate - Wikipedia

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    Pandemics [58] [59] and infectious diseases or epidemics can be major underlying causes of deaths. In a small study of 26 decedents, [better source needed] the pandemized COVID-19 and infection-related disease were "major contributors" to patients' death. [12]

  4. List of epidemics and pandemics - Wikipedia

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    There have been various major infectious diseases with high prevalence worldwide, but they are currently not listed in the above table as epidemics/pandemics due to the lack of definite data, such as time span and death toll. An Ethiopian child with malaria, a disease with an annual death rate of 619,000 as of 2021. [18]

  5. Case fatality rate - Wikipedia

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    Unlike a disease's mortality rate, the CFR does not take into account the time period between disease onset and death. A CFR is generally expressed as a percentage. It is a measure of disease lethality, and thus may change with different treatments. [1] CFRs are most often used for with discrete, limited-time courses, such as acute infections.

  6. COVID-19 pandemic death rates by country - Wikipedia

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    For the Netherlands, based on overall excess mortality, an estimated 20,000 people died from COVID-19 in 2020, [10] while only the death of 11,525 identified COVID-19 cases was registered. [9] The official count of COVID-19 deaths as of December 2021 is slightly more than 5.4 million, according to World Health Organization's report in May 2022.

  7. Epidemiological transition - Wikipedia

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    Worldwide, mortality rates have decreased as both technological and medical advancements have led to a tremendous decrease in infectious diseases. With fewer people dying from infectious diseases, there is a rising prevalence of chronic and/or degenerative diseases in the older surviving population. [citation needed]

  8. How Many People Die from Heart Disease Each Year? - AOL

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    Heart disease mortality rates vary by ethnicity and gender. Here’s a breakdown of the percentage of heart disease deaths by race, ethnicity, and gender, according to 2015 data from the CDC:

  9. List of infectious diseases - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of infectious diseases arranged by name, ... List of causes of death by rate − including specific infectious diseases and classes thereof;