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Increase in causes of death from diseases of the elderly such as Alzheimer’s and pneumonia
‘Extreme Choice’ is the leading cause of death for 10-30 year olds
As a result of the aging population, Alzheimer’s disease has risen significantly among the causes of death for our people.
Cancer, heart disease, and pneumonia still appear to be the leading causes of death, and young people in their teens to 30s still have the highest death rates due to extreme choices.
Reporter Taemin Kim reported.
[기자] [고임석 / 중앙치매센터장(어제) : 치매를 우리 모두의 문제로 인식할 수 있도록 마련한 행사입니다. 더 많은 분들이 치매 극복에 관심을 가져주시고 함께 공감해주시길 부탁 드립니다.]An event held to mark the ‘Dementia Overcoming Day’, the experts appealed, saying that dementia is a problem for everyone.
The reason was also shown in the death statistics last year.
Of the 295,000 total deaths in Korea last year, the death rate from Alzheimer’s disease accounted for 2.3%.
After being included in the top 10 ranks in the previous year’s cause of death statistics, he took two steps in one year to rank seventh.
The death rate from dementia per 100,000 people, including vascular dementia, also rose to 20.2, with women being 2.3 times higher than men.
As such, the rate of cause of death from diseases of the elderly, such as Alzheimer’s disease and pneumonia, has increased significantly compared to the last 10 years.
[김수영 / 통계청 인구동향과장 : 알츠하이머의 경우에는 대표적인 노인성 질환입니다. 그래서 인구가 고령화되면서 사망자 수가 계속 증가하고 있고 사망률도 높아지고 있습니다.]On the other hand, among young people between their teens and 30s, the death rate due to extreme choices was still the highest.
The number of deaths per 100,000 people rose to 26.9 after returning to the previous year’s increase, the highest among OECD countries.
In addition, the most common causes of death were cancer, heart disease and pneumonia, and these three diseases accounted for 45.9% of the total.
YTN Kim Taemin[[email protected]]it is.
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