The most common causes of death • NEWS.AT

Four factors alone account for more than half of all deaths worldwide. And what is even more shocking is that these four factors are largely preventable.

In 2017, about 55.9 million people died. 28.8 million deaths, or 51.5%, were attributable to only four risk factors: high blood pressure (10.4 million deaths), smoking (7.1 million deaths), high blood glucose (6.5 million deaths) and overweight and obesity (4.7 million deaths). This comes out of one of the largest health studies in the world, the global burden of disease. The dramatic thing about it: the four factors could be largely avoided.

The most deadly diseases

In total, 73.4% of deaths were due to noncommunicable diseases. According to researchers in the British journal The Lancet, cardiovascular diseases (17.8 million deaths), cancer (9.6 million deaths) and chronic respiratory diseases (3.9 million deaths) are at the forefront of priorities. Obesity and obesity are increasing worldwide: more than one million people are already dying from type 2 diabetes.

Non-specific low back pain, headaches and depression are now the most common causes of disability (2017). Although this has been the case for three decades, diabetes is now in fourth place. For 2017, the number of new cases of chronic and painful back problems has been estimated at just under 246 million. 995 million people have had headaches and 258 million have recently been diagnosed with depression.

Terror calls for more and more victims

The number of victims of conflict and terrorism is also increasing dramatically. Over the past decade, it has more than doubled, recording an increase of 118% between 2007 and 2017. In addition, researchers are talking about an epidemic of "opiate dependence" defining that era with four million people additional affected in 2017 and 110,000 deaths. "A problem that affects the United States in particular.After all, fewer people in the world fall ill and die from polluted water, poor hygiene or indoor air pollution in 2017.

The average life expectancy in the world is 70.5 years for men and 75.6 years for women. With 79.4 years for men and 84.03 for women, Austria is in the average of Western Europe. It is 79.53 years for men and 84.21 years for female newborns. Overall, life expectancy has increased, but it differs not only by gender, but also by region. For example, while a woman in Singapore is about 87.6 years old, men in the Central African Republic are barely 49.1 years old.

Disturbing development

The global burden of disease was launched in the early 1990s by Harvard University, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the World Bank. More than 3,500 researchers from more than 140 countries are involved in the world. For this study, data from 195 countries around the world were collected and badyzed. However, this year's result is anything but rebaduring: the figures are slowing not only progress, but development is also extremely unbalanced, the researchers said.

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To address this worrying trend, there is a need to improve medical care in many parts of the world and to reduce health risks worldwide. With respect to the four most common causes of death, it is up to us to take action, take control of our health and minimize the risk factors badociated with a healthy lifestyle, such as a balanced diet and exercise. regular.