Table 6

Twenty leading causes of DALYs and deaths, US 1996


DALY
% of total

Deaths
% of total

Total DALYs
33,090,212

Total Deaths
2,314,689







Ischemic heart disease
3,134,732
9.5
Ischemic heart disease
536,314
23.17
Cerebrovascular Disease
1,510,287
4.6
Lung trachea or bronchial cancer
168,206
7.27
Motor vehicle accidents
1,393,278
4.2
Cerebrovascular Disease
161,678
6.98
Unipolar major depression
1,370,285
4.1
COPD
99,982
4.32
Lung trachea or bronchial cancer
1,362,712
4.1
Lower respiratory infections
84,319
3.64
COPD
1,253,491
3.8
Diabetes mellitus
62,452
2.70
Alcohol use
1,141,193
3.4
Cancer colon or rectum
61,189
2.64
HIV
956,418
2.9
Breast cancer
46,649
2.02
Diabetes mellitus
946,291
2.9
Motor vehicle accidents
43,735
1.89
Osteoarthritis
942,682
2.8
Dementia and other degenerative and hereditary CNS disorders
43,190
1.87
Dementia and other degenerative and hereditary CNS disorders
889,242
2.7
Hypertension and hypertensive heart disease
39,589
1.71
Congenital Abnomalities
761,951
2.3
Prostate cancer
36,667
1.58
Homicide and Violence
714,621
2.2
Self-inflicted
31,725
1.37
Self-inflicted
674,443
2.0
HIV
31,188
1.35
Asthma
665,103
2.0
Cancer pancreas
29,494
1.27
Drug use
543,841
1.6
Inflammatory Cardiac
29,066
1.26
Breast cancer
514,786
1.6
Lymphomas
26,443
1.14
Conditions arising during the perinatal period
493,958
1.5
Cirrhosis of the liver
25,488
1.10
Cancer colon or rectum
483,931
1.5
Nephritis or nephrosis
24,569
1.06
Cirrhosis of the liver
411,539
1.2
Homicide and Violence
22,351
0.01

Michaud et al. Population Health Metrics 2006 4:11   doi:10.1186/1478-7954-4-11