Chronic Diseases and Their Risk Factors: The Nation's Leading Causes of Death

摘要

Every year, chronic diseases claim the lives of more than 1.7 million Americans.211u001eThese diseases are responsible for 7 of every 10 deaths in the United States. 211u001eThis document provides information on the burden of chronic diseases in the 50 211u001estates and the District of Columbia. The first section provides a national 211u001eperspective on chronic diseases as causes of death in the United States. In the 211u001esecond section, state-specific data on rates of death due to cardiovascular 211u001edisease, cancer, and diabetes allow for easy state-to-state comparisons. The 211u001ethird section provides information on the prevalence of three major risk 211u001ebehaviors-tobacco use, lack of physical activity, and poor nutrition-and on the 211u001euse of preventive services: mammography screening, sigmoidoscopy, fecal occult 211u001eblood test, and health care coverage. The fourth section provides more detailed 211u001einformation on the prevalence of these chronic diseases, risk factors, and 211u001epreventive services in individual states. The appendix contains technical notes 211u001eand a table that provides information on funding to states through CDC's National 211u001eCenter for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion for programs that 211u001etarget chronic diseases and their risk factors. It is hoped that the information 211u001ein this document will be useful to policy makers, to the public health community, 211u001eand to all others interested in addressing the burden of chronic disease in the 211u001eUnited States.