Heart diseases, cancer top causes of deaths among Filipinos in 2020 – PSA

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Heart diseases and cancer remain the leading causes of deaths among Filipinos in 2020, according to the Philippine Statistics Authority.

released on Tuesday showed around 99,680 Filipinos died due to heart diseases last year, surpassing the 82,547 average deaths from 2015-2019. The death count is a 2.3% increase from the over 97,500 recorded in 2019.Cerebrovascular diseases were the third leading cause of deaths among Filipinos last year, which accounted for 59,736 fatalities. The number is 6% lower from the previous count in 2019.

Pneumonia completes the top five causes of death in the country last year with around 37,265 deaths—posting a 48.1% decrease from the over 62,000 cases in 2019.Meanwhile, COVID-19 fatalities were at 27,967 last year. Of that number, 19,758 were probable, suspected, or clinically-epidemiologically diagnosed cases—referred to as 'COVID-19-virus not identified' by the World Health Organization. It is the seventh leading cause of death in the country last year.

 

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