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Module 7 Mortality Data Assignment

Nicole Spence
10/5/2016
For the year 2010, the ten most common causes of death were diseases of
heart, malignant neoplasms, chronic lower respiratory diseases, cerebrovascular
diseases, accidents (also defined as unintentional injuries), Alzheimer's disease,
diabetes melitus, nephritis, nephrotic syndrome, and nephrosis, influenza and
pneumonia, and suicide (also defined as intentional self-harm).
The most common cause of death was diseases of the heart which accounted
for 24.2% of the deaths in the year 2010; although this number is high, it is 2.0%
lower than it was in 2009. Malignant neoplasms also consisted of a large percentage
of deaths, being the cause of 23.3% of the total deaths in 2010; this again is lower
than 2009's data, with it being 0.4% lower. Many other causes of death, such as
accidents, nephritis, and suicide, also were lower than 2009's data and the total
deaths were also lower than in 2009. The most notable increase from 2009 to 2010
was with diabetes melitus, which increased 3.7% from 2009.

Table 1. The top 10 most common causes of death in 2010, along with the total
percentage of deaths caused by that cause of death and the percentage change
from 2009 to 2010.

Graph 1. Total number of each cause of death in 2010.

Graph 2. Percentage of cause of deaths in 2010.

Works Cited
Murphy S.L., Xu J.Q. Kochanek K.D. (2013). Deaths: final data for 2010. National vital
statistics reports. Volume 61(4). Retrieved from
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr61/nvsr61_04.pdf