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In 2016 in the United States there were 6,977 deaths from emphysema – 2.2 per 100,000 people. [13] Globally it accounts for 5% of all deaths. [14] A 2018 review of work on the effects of tobacco and cannabis smoking found that a possibly cumulative toxic effect could be a risk factor for developing emphysema, and spontaneous pneumothorax. [15 ...
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.
Overall, air pollution causes the deaths of around ca. 7 million people worldwide each year, and is the world's largest single environmental health risk, according to the WHO (2012) and the IEA (2016). [33] [34] [35]
In non-smokers, exposure to second-hand smoke (passive smoking) is the cause of 1.2 million deaths from the more than 8 million deaths worldwide each year due to tobacco smoke. [79] Women who smoke during pregnancy, and during the early life of the child is a risk factor for the later development of COPD in their child. [80]
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Pages in category "Deaths from emphysema" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 406 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Two children in the U.S. and 15 in the U.K. have died from strep A infection, a bacteria that normally causes mild disease but can be extremely dangerous.
Diseases caused by pollution, lead to the chronic illness and deaths of about 8.4 million people each year. However, pollution receives a fraction of the interest from the global community. [ 1 ] This is in part because pollution causes so many diseases that it is often difficult to draw a straight line between cause and effect.