This month, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) posted the highest cause of death in the U.S. death record statistics from the National Vital Statistics System.
The list:
- Heart disease
- Cancer
- Unintentional injury
- Stroke
- Chronic lower respiratory diseases
- Alzheimer’s disease
- Diabetes
- Kidney disease
- Chronic liver disease and cirrhosis
- COVID-19
The reports said 3,090,582 deaths happened in the U.S. in 2023. It was a decline of 6.1% from a year earlier in 2022.
“The overall death rate is decreasing,” said Fox News medical commentator Dr. Marc Siegel. In 2022, COVID-19 was the No. 4 death that occurred that year, now down to number 10. The CDC did point out that there were nearly 50,000 deaths in 2023 were attributed by the flu and pneumonia.
Dr. Seigel says the highest number of death rates were among the elderly, males, and black people.
“This is not a surprise because of increasing risks in these groups, including high blood pressure and heart disease,” he said.
The CDC reports the groups that encountered the lowest death rates were the lowest “non-Hispanic multiracial” and highest among “non-Hispanic Black or African American persons.
When it came to accidents, as in injury-related and suicides, Dr. Seigel said those numbers take longer to report because they are often underreported in provisional data.
