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Italian improves health status, especially among men. Heart disease and cancer still among the big killers

The Italians in general are in better health, according to the Istat report. However, men over women earn some point. Cardiovascular disease and cancer – despite the decline in deaths – still remain the big killers

All in all the news on the health of Italians are good: fall-related deaths and improve data on chronic diseases: with a 70.4% of the people who gave a positive opinion on your health status. However, cardiovascular disease and cancer are still the main factors of premature death.

According to the new Italian Statistical Yearbook 2013 Istat to provide a positive health are mostly men, with a 74.2%, compared with women (66.8%). The males, however, mark a decline of 1.1 percentage points.
Suffering from chronic diseases would be 37.9% of people, according to the statements of the citizens themselves, but if you look at the incidence by age the percentage rises considerably: in fact it gets up to 86, 4% among people aged. Among the most common chronic diseases there are, in order of popularity, hypertension (16.7%), arthrosis and arthritis (16.4%), allergic diseases (10.0%), osteoporosis (7.4%), bronchitis chronic bronchial asthma (5.9%), diabetes (5.4%).

Although the number of deaths decreases: in 2010 there were 584 615 deaths, of which 285 068 men and 299 547 women. the best result occurred in the mortality rate for the first year of life and that child, where it has gone from 2,046 in 2009 to 1,863 in 2010. This reduction brings the infant mortality rate to its lowest level ever observed Italy , falling 7.7% compared to 2009 and by 9.6% compared to 2006.

As mentioned, the big killer of Italians are always the diseases related to the cardiovascular system and cancer. According to ISTAT data, for example, to be associated with this type of disease is about 70% of overall mortality.
be most affected by cardiovascular disease are the women, who see in these the leading cause of death, while men are the second leading cause of death. A little ‘better if the women go as far as cancers: 30% of all deaths in fact these are the leading cause of death for men .
To earn third place in the ranking of mortality, we find the number of deaths for diseases of the respiratory system.

But the illnesses and deaths related change not only according to age, but also according to areas of residence. The highest levels of mortality were recorded for example in the Centre and North than in the South. In the South, you are having the lowest levels of mortality for cancers , but, on the other hand, here is a higher infant mortality.