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Leading Causes of Death in Cleveland, 2002
This report by the Cleveland Department of Public Health presents the leading causes of death during 1997-2000 and 2002.
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Leading Causes of Death, by percentage, |
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| Cause of Death | Rank | Deaths | Percent of all deaths |
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| Heart Disease | 1 | 1723 | 33.5% | |
| Lung Cancer | 2 | 904 | 17.6% | |
| Colorectal Cancer | 3 | 341 | 6.6% | |
| Breast Cancer | 4 | 293 | 5.7% | |
| Cerebrovascular Disease | 5 | 256 | 5.0% | |
| Prostate Cancer | 6 | 233 | 4.5% | |
| Chronic lower respiratory diseases | 7 | 205 | 4.0% | |
| Diabetes Mellitus | 8 | 163 | 3.2% | |
| Pancreatic Cancer | 9 | 157 | 3.1% | |
| Accidents (including transport) | 10 | 155 | 3.0% | |
| All other causes | -- | 708 | 13.8% | |
| Total deaths*, 2002 | 5138 | 100.0% | ||
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Leading Causes of Death, by percentage, |
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| Cause of Death | Rank | Deaths | Percent of all deaths |
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| Heart Disease | 1 | 7559 | 34.8% | |
| Lung Cancer | 2 | 1597 | 7.4% | |
| Cerebrovascular Disease | 3 | 1489 | 6.9% | |
| Chronic lower respiratory diseases | 4 | 818 | 3.8% | |
| Diabetes Mellitus | 5 | 628 | 2.9% | |
| Colorectal Cancer | 6 | 552 | 2.5% | |
| Pneumonia/influenza | 7 | 528 | 2.4% | |
| Kidney Disease | 8 | 419 | 1.9% | |
| Breast Cancer | 9 | 394 | 1.8% | |
| Stomach Cancer | 10 | 316 | 1.5% | |
| Prostate Cancer | 11 | 313 | 1.4% | |
| All other causes | -- | 7109 | 32.7% | |
| Total deaths*, 1997-2000 | 21722 | 100.0% | ||
| * Total deaths reflect those persons whose addresses from death certificates could be located in Cleveland. |
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| Source: City of Cleveland Department of Public Health, Office of Biostatistics |
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This document by the Cleveland Department of Public Health displays the top ten leading causes of death, ranked by the percentage of deaths in 2002. These can be compared to the ranked causes of death for the period 1997-2000. Note that these statistics are not age-adjusted.
Since causes of death may vary from year to year, a four-year period, 1997-2000, provides a robust measure of the most prevalent causes of death.
- Heart disease and lung cancer continue to be the two leading causes of death in Cleveland over the past six years (1997 to 2002.) Deaths from lung cancer increased from 7.4% of deaths in 1997-2000 to 17.6% in 2002. While percentages may vary slightly year to year, this jump is notable. CDPH is awaiting 2003 data from the Ohio Department of Health to determine if this large increase continues or may be a single year increase.
- Sidebar: According to the American Cancer Society and ODH, 18% of new (incident) cancer cases during 1998-2002 involved the lung & bronchus. (See "Ohio Cancer Facts and Figures 2005" in the Cancer Statistics topic.) And one-third of cancer deaths during those years were a consequence of lung or bronchus cancer.
- Deaths from colorectal, breast and prostate cancer have increased as a percentage of deaths. However, rates (per 100,000, now being calculated) would be useful here since these cause predominate among across genders.
- Deaths from cerebrovascular disease (for example: strokes) has dropped from 6.9% to 5.0% of deaths.
- Pancreatic cancer is now on the most recent top ten causes, possibly linked to the increasing prevalence of type II diabetes. (See link to Mayo Clinic study on an increased risk of pancreatic cancer among diabetes.)
- Pneumonia/influenza have dropped from the top ten list. The latter may reflect increases in immunization of those at risk and better diagnosis and care. (Again, age-adjusted rates would be useful, since most deaths from pneumonia and influenza are among the very young and very old.)
- Diabetes continues to be a major cause of death.
Keywords: Cancer, Leading Causes of Death, Municipal, Statistics
