There has been a big change in the trend of death, after Covid, most lives are being lost due to heart disease and cancer…

Raipur:- Heart disease and cancer remain the 2 leading causes of death in the US. Deaths due to unintentional injuries ranked second until 2020–2021, when COVID-19 became the third leading cause of death. In 2022, COVID-19 will move to fourth place and in 2023, COVID-19 is projected to be the 10th leading cause of death.
This information has been given in a research paper published on 8 August on jamanetwork.com titled Leading Causes of Death in America 2019-2023. Farida B. Ahmed, Jodi A. Sisewski and Robert N. Anderson have jointly prepared this research paper. The data collected in the research presents the leading causes of death in America for the year 2019 to 2023.From the top 10 causes of death in 2019 before the pandemic, influenza and pneumonia will likely rank 12th in 2023.
Although diabetes fell to the 8th leading cause during 2020-2022, the number and rate of diabetes deaths have increased since 2019. Chronic liver disease and cirrhosis will likely be the 9th leading cause in 2023, having entered the top 10 rankings for the first time in 2021. In contrast, suicide was the 10th leading cause of death in 2019 and earlier years, but has not ranked in the top 10 causes since 2020.
Annual mortality rates, causes of mortality, and changes over time are key indicators of population change. In the US, mortality data are derived from death certificate data from the National Center for Health Statistics National Vital Statistics System. These data provide annual mortality rates in both numbers and causes of death. Here, we summarize key findings from the National Center for Health Statistics' newly released report on leading causes of death in the US from 2019 to 2023.
Trends in the ranking of leading causes of death in the US remained relatively stable until the COVID-19 pandemic. COVID-19 debuted as the third leading cause of death in 2020 and remained one of the leading causes in subsequent years. Provisional data for 2023 indicate a shift in the top causes of death, primarily due to a decrease in COVID-19 deaths.
Mortality data from the National Vital Statistics System
The National Vital Statistics System collects, processes, tabulates, and disseminates vital statistics based on death certificates filed in the 50 states and the District of Columbia. Causes of death on death certificates are coded according to the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems, Tenth Revision.3 Cause-of-death data are based on the underlying cause of death, which is the disease or condition responsible for initiating the chain of events leading to death.4 Principal causes are classified according to the underlying cause and presented according to the number of deaths among U.S. residents. 5 The mortality figures presented here are provisional, based on the current flow of death certificate data from the states to the National Center for Health Statistics. Final mortality data will be available approximately 11 months after the end of the data year.
Comparison with pre-pandemic patternsThe number and rate of deaths due to COVID-19 have decreased since 2021. The table shows that other causes of death have also seen changes in recent years, compared to pre-pandemic rates from 2019. Heart disease rates increased by 0.4% from 2019 to 2023. However, this increased even more during the pandemic years. Cancer mortality rates declined steadily from pre-pandemic rates, except for a slight increase in 2021. Mortality due to unintentional injuries increased by 26.3% from 2019 to 2023, mainly due to a substantial increase in drug overdose deaths.
Mortality rates due to chronic lower respiratory disease, Alzheimer's disease, and influenza and pneumonia were lower in 2023 than in 2019 (a decrease of 12.5 per cent, 6.9 per cent, and 11.9 per cent, respectively), while mortality rates due to chronic liver disease and cirrhosis increased by 15.3 per cent from 2019 to 202. In 2020, COVID-19 substantially changed the ranking of leading causes of death.
Since then, COVID-19 mortality has declined. At the same time, there has been another shift in trends in leading causes of death. For some reasons, the changes may be directly or indirectly related to the COVID-19 pandemic. Increases in drug overdose and alcohol use disorders during the pandemic may continue to affect other leading causes, such as unintentional injuries and chronic liver disease and cirrhosis. Changing trends in leading causes may continue as the mortality burden from some causes of death may shift in the coming years.

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