The world's top3 killersHeart ailments, infectious diseases and cancer remain the world’s top three killers, the UN health agency said on Monday.Heart attacks and related problems are the top killer, especially among women,claiming 29 percent of people who die each year, the World Health Organization said in a report on the global burden of disease.In second place, infectious diseases lead to 16.2 percent of worldwide deaths.Cancer, in third, claims 12.6 percent of global deaths, said the 146-page report,which is based on death registration data from 112 countries and estimates where reporting is incomplete.The figures are from 2004，the most recent records available on a wide scale, officials from WHO said.But the rankings are unchanged since 1990 when WHO first did a global check.Some 58.8 million people died worldwide in 2004, most of them over 60, the report said. Nearly one in five deaths was a child under 5.The heart disease death rate was virtually unchanged from WHO’s previous study on death causes, based on 2002 figures.
世界三大疾病杀手世界卫生组织周一表示,心脏疾病、传染性疾病和癌症仍然是导致人们死亡的三大病症。世界卫生组织在一份全球重点死亡报告中说,心脏病发作及其相连问题是造成死亡最高的。每年死亡人数中的29%是心脏病所致,在女性中尤其突出。排第二的是传染病，占全球死亡人数的16.2%。第三是癌症，占全球死亡人数的12.6%。这份146页的报告是基于112个国家的死亡统计数据和部分估算数字。世界卫生组织称，这些数字来源于2004年，是距今最近的可供使用的世界范围记录。2004年全球共有5880万左右的人死亡,他们大多数年龄超过60岁。近1/5是5岁以下的儿童。心脏病的死亡率和世卫在2002年统计的数据相比,几乎没有什么变化。
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