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The consumption you're talking about, though, refers to a specific disease: tuberculosis, or simply TB. Although consumption (aka "the evil disease") isn't mentioned much anymore in countries that have widespread vaccination programs, the deadly bacterial infection hasn't gone away. Tuberculosis continues to kill in unprotected and vulnerable ...
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On February 9, 1906, at the age of 33, Paul Laurence Dunbar died at his home in Dayton, Ohio, of consumption (the common name for tuberculosis in this era). Tuberculosis was the single greatest cause of death between 1870 and 1910, claiming three to four million estimated lives in the United States, including Dunbar’s. Although his case was not uni...
Our methods involved browsing through online archives of newspapers printed between 1870 and 1910 that were accessible through Chronicling Americafrom the Library of Congress and commercial databases available through our university libraries. We narrowed our search to the words “died” and “consumption” within 50 words of one another, which yielded...
The scope and type of information gathered about victims required additional analysis to uncover and interpret racial and ethnic disparities. Figure 1 represents the 1890 census death records of registered cities across the United States by gender and race. The chart clearly illustrates the higher death rates for people of color, as compared to the...
Since continuously reading obituaries is not the most cheerful task, our research team frequently sought diversions to overcome being discouraged. The ridiculousness of cures, advertisements, and theories for the causes of consumption, from cows to vegetarianism, provided amusing distractions as we read through the newspaper search results. Despite...
Global burden of 288 causes of death and life expectancy decomposition in 204 countries and territories and 811 subnational locations, 1990-2021: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021. Lancet. 2024 Apr 3:S0140-6736 (24)00367-2. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736 (24)00367-2. Online ahead of print.
Apr 28, 2009 · Conclusions. Smoking and high blood pressure, which both have effective interventions, are responsible for the largest number of deaths in the US. Other dietary, lifestyle, and metabolic risk factors for chronic diseases also cause a substantial number of deaths in the US.
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Leading Causes of Death, 1999-2015. Detailed mortality tables showing deaths, percent of total deaths, and death rates for the top 15 causes of death overall and by age group, race, Hispanic origin, sex, and state, with separate tables for infants. WISQARS-Leading Causes of Death Reports.
On this page, you will find global data and research on leading causes of death and how they can be prevented. This includes the number of people dying from each cause, their death rates, how they differ between age groups, and their trends over time.
