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Heart disease, cancer, HIV / AIDS and Type 2 diabetes each place among the top five causes of death in the Big Apple. Every 34 seconds, someone in the country dies of a heart attack. Cancer is the most preventable killer in the country, causing almost 22,000 deaths in 2006.
Heart disease, cancer, HIV / AIDS and Type 2 diabetes each place among the top five causes of death in the Big Apple. Every 34 seconds, someone in the country dies of a heart attack. Cancer is the most preventable killer in the country, causing almost 22,000 deaths in 2006.
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Heart disease, cancer, HIV / AIDS and Type 2 diabetes each place among the top five causes of death in the Big Apple. Every 34 seconds, someone in the country dies of a heart attack. Cancer is the most preventable killer in the country, causing almost 22,000 deaths in 2006.
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T here’s a Chris Rock bit where the comedian contends that once someone is in their late 70s or 80s, no matter how they die, it can always be chalked up to natural causes — even if they got hit by a speeding bus. “Hey, if you were younger, you’d have gotten out of the way in time, right?” is roughly the punch line. While it’s certainly still a good idea to look both ways, New Yorkers should be more concerned about the following killers than death by taxi.
Heart disease, cancer, HIV/AIDS and Type 2 diabetes
each place among the top five leading causes of ll HEART DISEASE death in the Big Apple. Each can potentially strike DIAGNOSIS PROGNOSIS anyone, regardless of their lifestyle — children with HIV are born every day, a non-smoking decathlete T his is the heavyweight, the most prolific killer in all of America by far — and in New E ssentially, coronary heart disease is an accumulation of arterial plaque. This can be York City as well — causing al- triggered by poor eating habits can still develop lung cancer, and heart disease can most 22,000 deaths in 2006. Ev- and a sedentary lifestyle, or as ery 34 seconds that ticks by on a result of a genetic predispo- be as much a result of genetics as anything else. Live your wristwatch, someone in the sition. This type of plaque col- here long enough, and your death will very likely be country dies of a heart attack. lects in any artery, but when it It can be strictly a hereditary gunks up coronary arteries, it attributable to one of these ailments. But treatment issue, but often comes hand-in- often (but not always) leads to hand with high blood pressure, chest pain, and eventually a methods are always evolving, and there are preventive high cholesterol, diabetes, obe- heart attack. One reason for the steps that every New Yorker can easily take to reduce sity, or all of the above, creating high mortality rate is the creep- a waterfall-effect of mounting, ing nature of the illness. For their risk. — By Stephen Hirst critical health problems. many victims an arm “falling
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