https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIV/AIDS
that is approx 1 million per year - which is approx the same as the number of people killed in car crashes annually ??????? - why would those 2 numbers be so close? ============================ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide - 842,000 died by suicide worldwide in 2013 - per 2nd paragraph https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homicide#Global_statistics - 437,000 killed by homicide in 2012 - per 3rd paragraph https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major_trauma#Epidemiology - 5 million die from trauma every year - (maybe this is 1.4M car crashes + 437K homicide + violent suicides + falls (556K per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falling_(accident) ] + war + ?) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myocardial_infarction#Epidemiology - heart attacks - 12% of worldwide deaths - IHD is becoming a more common cause of death in the developing world. For example, in India, IHD had become the leading cause of death by 2004, accounting for 1.46 million deaths (14% of total deaths) and deaths due to IHD were expected to double during 1985–2015.[130] Globally, disability adjusted life years (DALYs) lost to ischemic heart disease are predicted to account for 5.5% of total DALYs in 2030, making it the second-most-important cause of disability (after unipolar depressive disorder), as well as the leading cause of death by this date.[127] ======================== NOTE TO SELF I have to draw up a chart showing the leading causes of Years of Life Lost or Disability Adjusted Life Years -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "massfire" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to massfire+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to massfire@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/massfire. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
