Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index In public health, a big killer is a disease or other major cause of loss of human life. Examples include: Cancer: 23 % of deaths Circulatory diseases: 36 %. Diabetes : 1/3 of heart attack people suffer diabetes. Infectious diseases : AIDS and tuberculosis Mental illness : 30 % of people in the community suffers one. Prevalent are Parkinson's disease and Alzheimer's disease Traffic accidents Ten Leading Causes of Death in the United States in the year 2000: Heart disease: 710,760 Cancer: 553,091 Stroke: 167661 Chronic lower respiratory disease: 122,009 Accidents: 97,900 Diabetes: 69,301 Pneumonia/Influenza: 65,313 Alzheimer's disease: 49,558 Nephritis, nephrotic syndrome, and nephrosis: 37,251 Septicemia: 31,224 Source: National Vital Statistics Report, Vol. 50, No. 16, courtesy of United States National Center for Health Statistics This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.