The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME), a research institute working in the area of global health statistics and impact evaluation at the University of Washington, USA, has disclosed that heart diseases are responsible for 33 per cent of deaths across the globe.
Following heart diseases is cancer which has 18 per cent of claming the lives of people globally under noncommunicable diseases, according to the IHME Global Burden of Disease and Global Terrorism Database.
Smoking, physical inactivity, eating junk foods and other factors have been discovered to be causes of cardiovascular diseases.
Chronic respiratory (7%), digestive diseases (4.5%), neurological (3.9%), diabetes (2.7%) and other diseases under it have 5.7% making all noncommunicable diseases result into 74% of global deaths.
Quoting the IHME Global Burden of Disease and Global Terrorism Database, the World of Statistics on Monday, said infectious diseases account for 14 per cent of fatalities globally.
The infectious diseases include pneumonia (4.4%), diarrheal diseases (2.7%), tuberculosis (2%), HIV/AIDS (1.5%), malaria (1.1%) and others have 2.1%.
The World Health Organisation attesting to the report said, “At a global level, 7 of the 10 leading causes of deaths in 2019 were noncommunicable diseases.
“These seven causes accounted for 44% of all deaths or 80% of the top 10. However, all noncommunicable diseases together accounted for 74% of deaths globally in 2019.”
WHO said, “The world’s biggest killer is ischaemic heart disease, responsible for 16% of the world’s total deaths.
“Since 2000, the largest increase in deaths has been for this disease, rising by more than 2 million to 8.9 million deaths in 2019.
“Stroke and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease are the 2nd and 3rd leading causes of death, responsible for approximately 11% and 6% of total deaths respectively.”
Meanwhile, other causes of deaths include neonatal (3.3%), maternal (0.4%), nutritional deficiencies (0.4%), transport accidents (2.3%), other accidents (3.1%), suicides (1.3%), homicides (0.7%), war battles (0.2%) and terrorism (0.05%).
