Leading Cause of Death Profile for St Louis County Residents

		Data Years	Number of Events	Age-Adjusted Rate	Significantly Different	Ranking Quintile	Age-Adjusted State Rate	Trend Lines	Advanced Graphics
All Causes		1997-2007	104,812	830.2	L	5	890.5
Heart Disease		1997-2007	33,018	256.7	L	4	262.7
All Cancers (Malignant Neoplasms)		1997-2007	24,177	193.2	L	4	202.6
	Lung Cancer	1997-2007	6,920	55.5	L	4	63.0
	Breast Cancer	1997-2007	2,045	16.4	H	2	15.0
Stroke/Other Cerebrovascular Disease		1997-2007	7,084	54.9	L	4	58.3
Chronic Lower Respiratory Disease		1997-2007	4,435	35.0	L	5	47.2
Total Unintentional Injuries		1997-2007	3,612	30.9	L	5	44.0
	Motor Vehicle Accidents	1997-2007	1,170	10.5	L	5	19.7
Pneumonia and Influenza		1997-2007	3,655	28.1	H	3	26.2
Diabetes Mellitus		1997-2007	2,794	22.1	L	3	24.6
Alzheimer's Disease		1997-2007	2,112	16.0	L	3	18.5
Kidney Disease (Nephritis and Nephrosis)		1997-2007	1,619	12.7	L	5	16.0
Suicide		1997-2007	1,165	10.3	L	5	12.7
Septicemia		1997-2007	1,352	10.7	N/S	2	10.8
Chronic Liver Disease and Cirrhosis		1997-2007	746	6.1	L		7.2
Homicide		1997-2007	723	6.9	N/S		7.1
HIV/AIDS		1997-2007	243	2.2	N/S		2.5
Smoking-Attributable (estimated)		1997-2007	17,086	135.0	L	5	155.6
Alcohol/Drug-Induced		1997-2007	1,276	11.3	L	3	14.7
All Injuries and Poisonings		1997-2007	5,668	49.5	L	5	66.0
Firearm		1997-2007	1,122	10.3	L	4	12.7
Injury at Work		1997-2007	129	1.2	L		2.1

All rates are per year per 100,000 population and are age-adjusted to the U.S. 2000 standard population.

* Fewer than 20 events in numerator; rate is unstable.

Trends are available only if each 3-year period of the moving average has an average of 20 or more events.

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Note: Causes of death at the left margin are listed in order from most to least prevalent statewide, excepting Smoking-Attributable, Alcohol/Drug-Induced, All Injuries and Poisonings, HIV/AIDS, Firearm and Injury at Work. These causes include deaths from other causes; e.g., some deaths due to Heart Disease and All Cancer (Malignant Neoplasms) are included in the count for Smoking-Attributable.