Leading preventable causes of death

Leading preventable causes of death

Leading causes of preventable deaths in the United States as of the year 2000.

[cite journal |author=Mokdad AH, Marks JS, Stroup DF, Gerberding JL |title=Actual causes of death in the United States, 2000 |journal=JAMA |volume=291 |issue=10 |pages=1238–45 |year=2004 |month=March |pmid=15010446 |doi=10.1001/jama.291.10.1238 |url=http://www.csdp.org/research/1238.pdf]

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*Preventative medicine

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