{"id":5285,"date":"2024-04-05T15:48:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-05T19:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=5285"},"modified":"2024-04-06T20:51:43","modified_gmt":"2024-04-07T00:51:43","slug":"covid-19-radically-changed-the-leading-causes-of-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/covid-19-radically-changed-the-leading-causes-of-death\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 \u2018Radically\u2019 Changed the Leading Causes of Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>COVID-19 became the second leading cause of death globally in the year after it was declared a pandemic, according to a <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thelancet.com\/journals\/lancet\/article\/PIIS0140-6736(24)00367-2\/fulltext\" lang=\"en\" rel=\"noopener\">study<\/a> published in the <em>Lancet<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>While heart disease remained the top killer, COVID \u201cradically altered\u201d the main five causes of death for the first time in 30&nbsp;years, displacing stroke, the publication said. In 2021, 94 in every 100,000 people died from COVID, on an age-standardized basis.<\/p>\n<p>Since 1990, global life expectancy increased by 6.2&nbsp;years, mainly due to reductions in death from diarrhea and lower respiratory infections and better outcomes for people suffering from a stroke or ischemic heart disease.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COVID-19 became the second leading cause of death globally in the year after it was declared a pandemic, according to a <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thelancet.com\/journals\/lancet\/article\/PIIS0140-6736(24)00367-2\/fulltext\" lang=\"en\" rel=\"noopener\">study<\/a> published in the <em>Lancet<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>While heart disease remained the top killer, COVID \u201cradically altered\u201d the main five causes of death for the first time in 30&nbsp;years, displacing stroke, the publication said. In 2021, 94 in every 100,000 people died from COVID, on an age-standardized basis.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/covid-19-radically-changed-the-leading-causes-of-death\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">COVID-19 \u2018Radically\u2019 Changed the Leading Causes of Death<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[187,152,18,150,38,1036,36,74,1035,8,14,230,40],"class_list":["post-5285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-alzheimers-disease","tag-cause-of-death","tag-covid-19","tag-deaths","tag-dementia","tag-diarrhea","tag-heart-disease","tag-life-expectancy","tag-malaria","tag-research","tag-sars-cov-2","tag-statistics","tag-strokes","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5285"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5288,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5285\/revisions\/5288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}