1. Heart disease is the leading killer of both men and women. 2. An OSHA study noted that TB was the leading killer of Americans at the turn of the century. 3. And breast cancer is not even the leading killer among the cancers that strike American women. 4. Blacks have the highest prevalence of lung cancer, the leading killer among cancers. 5. A third of them die, making stroke the third leading killer, after heart disease and cancer. 6. Fifty percent will die of heart disease, yet this leading killer does not conjure up anything like the fear that breast cancer does. 7. Forty percent of Africans with AIDS have tuberculosis, which is the leading killer of people with AIDS. 8. He advocated treating diarrhea, a leading killer of children, using doses of water, sugar, and salt that village people could make themselves. 9. Heart disease is by far the leading killer of American women. 10. Heart disease is the leading killer of Americans. |