What are the top 5 leading causes of death?

In USA?
                                        

I had thought Heart, Lung, Liver, Pancreatic Cancer and NHL

But the Center for Disease Control reports:

The fifteen leading causes of death in 2004 were:

- Diseases of heart (heart disease);
- Malignant neoplasms (cancer);
- Cerebrovascular diseases (stroke);
- Chronic lower respiratory diseases;
- Accidents (unintentional injuries);
- Diabetes mellitus;
- Alzheimer's disease;
- Influenza and pneumonia;
- Nephritis, nephrotic syndrome and nephrosis (kidney disease);
- Septicemia;
- Intentional self-harm (suicide);
- Chronic liver disease and cirrhosis;
- Essential (primary) hypertension and hypertensive renal disease (hypertension);
- Parkinson's disease; and
* Assault (homicide)

Actually I strongly suspect it is Autoimmune Hemolytic Anemia in which the immune system prematurely destroys the red blood cells. This is what I believe to be the FATIGUE or ANEMIA that doctors are looking for in the Chronic Fatigue Immune Dysfunction Syndrome groups (CFS, FM, 'gulf war syndrome' for short)

My friend will have been reported to have died from pancreatic cancer, but the stronger signs are that of the anemia the doctors didn't find.

7-12-08

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