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IPOH: Heart disease remains the leading cause of death in Malaysia, according to the Department of Statistics.
In his “Statistics on Causes of Death,” he listed ischemic heart disease as the leading cause of death in the country last year.
A total of 16,374 deaths or 15% of the 109,164 medically certified deaths last year were due to heart disease.
The second leading cause of death in the country was pneumonia (12.2%), cerebrovascular diseases (8%), transport accidents (3.8%), and malignant neoplasms of the trachea, bronchi and lung (2.4%).
Ischemic heart disease remains the leading cause of death for men in Malaysia, while for women, the leading cause of death was pneumonia, he said.
The department said that the leading causes of death by age group revealed that 3.3% of those aged 0-14 died from transportation accidents.
For those in the age groups between 15 and 40, 20.6% died from transportation accidents.
Furthermore, 18% of those in the 41 to 59 age group died of ischemic heart disease.
For those aged 60 and over, 16% of them also died from ischemic heart disease.
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