Most Common Causes of Death in the US -

The most common causes of mortality among "blacks" in the United States

The table is derived from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's "Health, United States, 2002 With Chartbook on Trends in the Health of Americans." "Black" as defined by the CDC.

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Overall - Raw Numbers | Overall - Percentages
Asian-Descent | Black | Female | Hispanic/Latino | Male | Native American | White

		Black - 1980			Black - 2000
		All causes	233,135		All causes	285,826
1		Diseases of heart	72,956		Diseases of heart	77,523
2		Malignant neoplasms [Cancer of All Types]	45,037		Malignant neoplasms [Cancer of All Types]	61,945
3		Cerebrovascular diseases	20,135		Cerebrovascular diseases	19,221
4		Unintentional injuries	13,480		Unintentional injuries	12,277
5		Homicide	10,172		Diabetes mellitus	12,021
6		Certain conditions originating in the perinatal period	6,961		Homicide	7,867
7		Pneumonia and influenza	5,648		Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) disease	7,848
8		Diabetes mellitus	5,544		Chronic lower respiratory diseases	7,607
9		Chronic liver disease and cirrhosis	4,790		Nephritis, nephrotic syndrome and nephrosis	6,911
10		Nephritis, nephrotic syndrome, and nephrosis	3,416		Influenza and pneumonia	5,990