Question

morbidity and mortality rates for texas - contractions tecoveries and deaths ?

Answer 1

# A total of 178,501 Texas residents died in 2013. The leading cause of death, diseases of the heart, accounted for 22.5 percent of those deaths, while the second most common cause of death, malignant neoplasms ,accounted for 21.5 percent. Chronic lower respiratory diseases, accidents, and cerebrovascular diseases ranked third, fourth, and fifth, respectively. Together, these five leading causes of death represented 59.9 percent of all deaths in 2013.

# The number of infant deaths increased to 2,253 deaths in 2013 compared to 2,224 deaths in 2012. The infant mortality rate remained at 5.8 infant deaths per 1,000 live births. Fetal deaths increased from 2,028 in 2012 to 2,092 in 2013. The fetal death ratio increased to 5.4 fetal deaths per 1,000 live births in 2013 compared to 5.3 in 2012. A total of 153 women died in 2013 as a result of pregnancy or childbearing for a maternal mortality rate of 39.5 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births.

# Years of potential life lost (YPLL), a measure of premature mortality, is the sum of years lost by persons who die before age 65 . The YPLL by Texans increased from 902,889 in 2012 to 909,027 in 2013. Accidents, malignant neoplasms, and diseases of the heart continued to be the top three causes of premature mortality in Texas.

# The order of the top three leading causes of death had remained the same between 1979 and 2006. Diseases of the heart claimed 40,150 lives (38,987 in 2012) and continued to be the leading cause of death followed by malignant neoplasms (cancer) with 38,289 deaths (38,096 in 2012). Diseases of the heart and malignant neoplasms have been the first and second leading causes of death in Texas and the nation since 1950.

# Since 2007, the third, fourth, and fifth leading causes of death have changed every year. Chronic lower respiratory diseases, accidents, and cerebrovascular disease were the third, fourth, and fifth leading causes of death in 2013. Chronic lower respiratory diseases remained at the third rank with 9,787 deaths in 2013, compared to 9,520 deaths in 2012. Accidents moved up from fifth rank in 2012 to fourth in 2013 with 9,341 deaths (9,267 in 2012). Cerebrovascular disease dropped from fourth rank in 2012 (9,297 deaths) to fifth in rank in 2013 (9,238 deaths). The top three leading causes of death, diseases of the heart, malignant neoplasms, and chronic lower respiratory diseases, accounted for 49.5 percent of all Texas resident deaths in 2013. The next two leading causes of death, accidents and cerebrovascular disease, accounted for another 10.4 percent of all Texas resident deaths in 2013.

# The sixth leading cause was Alzheimer's disease with 5,284 deaths in 2013 (5,168 in 2012) and diabetes mellitus was the seventh leading cause in 2013 with 5,262 deaths (5,127 in 2012). Septicemia was the eighth leading cause with 3,879 deaths in 2013. Nephritis and related diseases were the ninth leading cause with 3,727 deaths. Finally, chronic liver disease and cirrhosis were the tenth leading cause with 3,410 deaths in 2013.