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  2. List of causes of death by rate - Wikipedia

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    In 2016, the WHO recorded 56.7 million deaths [3] with the leading cause of death as cardiovascular disease causing more than 17 million deaths (about 31% of the total) as shown in the chart to the side. In 2021, there were approx. 68 million deaths worldwide, as per WHO report.

  3. 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.

  4. IBS is more common than many realize. Here's how these ... - AOL

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    The American College of Gastroenterology also notes that IBS symptoms can vary in severity from person to person and that women are nearly twice as likely to have IBS than men – though it is not ...

  5. Case fatality rate - Wikipedia

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    In epidemiology, case fatality rate (CFR) – or sometimes more accurately case-fatality risk – is the proportion of people who have been diagnosed with a certain disease and end up dying of it. Unlike a disease's mortality rate , the CFR does not take into account the time period between disease onset and death.

  6. Mortality rate - Wikipedia

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    The crude death rate is defined as "the mortality rate from all causes of death for a population," calculated as the "total number of deaths during a given time interval" divided by the "mid-interval population", per 1,000 or 100,000; for instance, the population of the United States was around 290,810,000 in 2003, and in that year, approximately 2,419,900 deaths occurred in total, giving a ...

  7. Irritable bowel syndrome - Wikipedia

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    While the causes of IBS are still unknown, it is believed that the entire gut–brain axis is affected. [30] [31] Recent findings suggest that an allergy triggered peripheral immune mechanism may underlie the symptoms associated with abdominal pain in patients with irritable bowel syndrome. [32] IBS is more prevalent in obese patients. [33]

  8. Excess mortality - Wikipedia

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    The STMF was established to provide data for scientific analysis of all-cause mortality fluctuations by week within each calendar year in standard formats. Part of the Human Mortality Database use a joint project of two teams based in the Laboratory of Demographic Data at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) and at the ...

  9. Adventist Health Studies - Wikipedia

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    Eating nuts several times a week reduces the risk of heart attack by up to 50%. Eating whole meal bread instead of white bread reduced non-fatal heart attack risk by 45%. Drinking 5 or more glasses of water a day may reduce heart disease by 50%. Men who had a high consumption of tomatoes reduced their risk of prostate cancer by 40%.