Cancer now kills twice as many people as heart disease in high-income countries, scientists say
FILE PHOTO: Cancer cells are seen on a large screen connected to a microscope at the CeBit computer fair in Hanover, Germany. March, 6, 2012.
While cardiovascular disease remains, for now, the leading cause of mortality worldwide among middle-aged adults –– accounting for 40 percent of all deaths –– that is no longer the case in high-income countries, where cancer now kills twice as many people as heart disease, the findings showed. But as rates continue to fall, cancer could likely become the leading cause of death worldwide, within just a few decades," said Gilles Dagenais, a professor at Quebec's Laval University in Canada who co-led the work.Of an estimated 55 million deaths in the world in 2017, the researchers said, around 17.7 million were due to cardiovascular disease – a group of conditions that includes heart failure, angina, heart attack and stroke.
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