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What's going to kill you? [US, 2018-2023] (lemmy.world)
submitted 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) by tburkhol@lemmy.world to c/dataisbeautiful@mander.xyz
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Not beautiful. More "interesting data set." Source: https://wonder.cdc.gov/ucd-icd10-expanded.html

edited to correct off-by-one error in 5-14 year old column

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[–] tburkhol@lemmy.world 5 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

It is really uninteresting: all the details are blown out by old people dying of cancer & heart disease.

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 6 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (2 children)

Still. This is what one should scale their worries around.

First issue: stay up to date on cancer stuff.

Second issue: keep your heart healthy.

Cumulative function would be interesting too.

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 4 weeks ago

Diet, excercise, try not to live near a Superfund site.

[–] br3d@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

Should scale their worries around... once they reach a certain age, given everyone dies eventually. Younger people should worry about those cars and guns. And Americans' baffling tendency to poison themselves, it seems