statistics of how many children are diagnosed with life threatening diseases
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- Furthermore, the number of diagnosed cases annually has not declined in nearly 20 years. Every day, 43 children are diagnosed with cancer. 12% of children diagnosed with cancer do not survive. Children’s cancer affects all ethnic, gender and socio-economic groups. The average age of children diagnosed is six. More than 40,000 children undergo treatment for cancer each year.
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- Number of deaths for leading causes of death: 1  Heart disease: 633,842. 2  Cancer: 595,930. 3  Chronic lower respiratory diseases: 155,041. 4  Accidents (unintentional injuries): 146,571. 5  Stroke (cerebrovascular diseases): 140,323. 6  Alzheimer’s disease: 110,561. 7  Diabetes: 79,535. 8  Influenza and Pneumonia: 57,062.
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- Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) were responsible for 68% (38 million) of all deaths globally in 2012, up from 60% (31 million) in 2000. Cardiovascular diseases alone killed 2.6 million more people in 2012 than in the year 2000.
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Childhood cancer US[edit] In the United States, cancer is the second most common cause of death among children between the ages of 1 and 14 years, exceeded only by accidents. More than 16 out of every 100,000 children and teens in the U.S. were diagnosed with cancer, and nearly 3 of every 100,000 died from the disease.
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- 1 Approximately 15,000 children are hospitalized every year in the U.S. with pediatric liver disease or disorders. 2  An alarming statistic is that six million children—up to 10 percent of all children in the nation—have NAFLD, the non-alcoholic fatty liver disease we referred to earlier.
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Flu Epidemic Has Closed Schools in at Least 12 States, and Administrators Say That's Not Normal Influenza-associated child deaths reported to the CDC during regular flu seasons since 2004 have ranged from a low of 37 deaths during the 2011-12 season to a high of 171 deaths during the 2012-13 season.
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Noncommunicable diseases Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) kill 40 million people each year, equivalent to 70% of all deaths globally. Each year, 17 million people die from a NCD before the age of 70; 87% of these premature deaths occur in low- and middle-income countries.
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- Worldwide, almost 32.5 million people diagnosed with cancer within the five years previously were alive at the end of 2012 (estimated). An estimated 169.3 million years of healthy life were lost globally because of cancer in 2008. Worldwide there will be 23.6 million new cases of cancer each year by 2030 (estimated). Incidence rates in the UK are lower than in the European Union in males, but higher in females. Incidence rates in the UK are lower than in the More Developed Regions of the world in males, but higher in females.
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Statistics and Disease Facts Approximately 600 – 1,000 people contract meningococcal disease in the U.S. each year.*. Of those who get meningococcal disease 10-15 percent die. Among those who survive, approximately 1 in 5 live with permanent disabilities, such as brain damage, hearing loss, loss of kidney function or limb amputations. 21 percent of all meningococcal disease cases occur in preteens, teens and young adults ages 11–24.
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Noncommunicable diseases Who is at risk of such diseases? All age groups and all regions are affected by NCDs. NCDs are often associated with older age groups, but evidence shows that 16 million of all deaths attributed to noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) occur before the age of 70. Of these premature deaths, 82% occurred in low- and middle-income countries.
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Infectious and Chronic Diseases The leading cause of mortality among children one to four years of age, at 24.5 percent of all deaths in 1988, was infectious and parasitic diseases, particularly diarrheal diseases.he overall reduction in the number of new cases of the above infectious diseases, on the one hand, and the conspicuous rise in the incidence of chronic and degenerative diseases, on the other, indicate the occurrence of an epidemiological transition in Brazil.
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- Diarrhoea is no longer among the 5 leading causes of death, but is still among the top 10, killing 1.5 million people in 2012. Chronic diseases cause increasing numbers of deaths worldwide. Lung cancers (along with trachea and bronchus cancers) caused 1.6 million (2.9%) deaths in 2012, up from 1.2 million (2.2%) deaths in 2000. Similarly, diabetes caused 1.5 million (2.7%) deaths in 2012, up from 1.0 million (2.0%) deaths in 2000.
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Child According to population health experts, child mortality rates have fallen sharply since the 1990s. About 12.6 million under-five infants died annually worldwide in 1990, which has declined to 6.6 million infant deaths in 2012.
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Birth defect Birth defects are present in about 3% of newborns in USA. Congenital anomalies resulted in about 632,000 deaths per year in 2013 down from 751,000 in 1990. The type with the greatest numbers of deaths are congenital heart disease (323,000), followed by neural tube defects (69,000).
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United Nations Millennium Development Goals 1 While Sub-Saharan Africa has the world’s highest child mortality rate, the absolute decline in child mortality has been the largest over the past two decades.  Every day in 2015, 16,000 children under five continue to die, mostly from preventable causes.
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Cancer in Children and Adolescents The cancer mortality rate—the number of deaths due to cancer per 100,000 people per year—among children ages 0 to 19 years declined by more than 50% from 1975–1977 to 2010–2014 . Specifically, the mortality rate was slightly more than 5 per 100,000 children in 1975 and about 2.1 per 100,000 children in 2010–2014.
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Latest Autism Statistics 1 Autism prevalence figures are growing. 2  More children will be diagnosed with autism this year than with AIDS, diabetes & cancer combined. 3  An estimated 1 out of 42 boys and 1 in 189 girls are diagnosed with autism in the United States.
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Newborn death and illness 1 Up to two thirds of newborn deaths can be prevented if known, effective health measures are provided at birth and during the first week of life. 2  Of the 8.2 million under-five child deaths per year, about 3.3 million occur during the neonatal period —in the first four weeks of life.
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- Cancer incidence in children aged 0-14. Cancer is relatively rare in children,with this age group accounting for less than one per cent of all new cancer cases (UK 2009-2011).[ 1-4 ] An average of 862 and 713 cases per year were diagnosed in boys and girls, respectively, in the UK between 2009 and 2011.
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- In high-income countries, 7 in every 10 deaths are among people aged 70 years and older. People predominantly die of chronic diseases: cardiovascular diseases, cancers, dementia, chronic obstructive lung disease or diabetes. Lower respiratory infections remain the only leading infectious cause of death.Only 1 in every 100 deaths is among children under 15 years.n high-income countries, 7 in every 10 deaths are among people aged 70 years and older. People predominantly die of chronic diseases: cardiovascular diseases, cancers, dementia, chronic obstructive lung disease or diabetes. Lower respiratory infections remain the only leading infectious cause of death.
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Flu season child death toll doubles in CDC's latest flu report During the 2012-2013 flu season, which started early and was especially severe, 169 children died. The CDC does not track exact number of adult death rates, but this week the flu season reached “epidemic” status because 7.5 percent of all U.S. deaths during the second week of January were due to flu and pneumonia illnesses, surpassing the CDC’s epidemic threshold of 7.2 percent.
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Pertussis (Whooping Cough) Approximately half of infants less than one year of age who get whooping cough are hospitalized. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that worldwide, there are an estimated 16 million cases of whooping cough and about 195,000 deaths per year.
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- According to GLOBOCAN 2012, an estimated 14.1 million new cancer cases and 8.2 million. cancer-related deaths occurred in 2012, compared with 12.7 million and 7.6 million, respectively, in 2008. Prevalence estimates for 2012 show that there were 32.6 million people (over the age of. 15 years) alive who had had a cancer diagnosed in the previous five years. The most commonly diagnosed cancers worldwide were those of the lung (1.8 million, 13.0% of.
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- - one of the most common chronic diseases in children and adolescents. - 186,300 people below age 20 have diabetes. - In the last 2 decades, type 2 diabetes has increased among US children & teens. 15,000+ young people diagnosed w/ type 1.
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Nationwide Super Bowl ad claims accidents are the leading cause of death among children Compare that to unintentional injuries that resulted in deaths. There were 3,993 cumulative deaths in 2013 among children through age 14. Bottom line: From birth to 14, the most common cause of death is birth defects. From one year old to 14, the most common cause is accidents.