Examples of Chronic Illnesses and Statistics

Illnesses:



Addison’s disease
AIDS
Anemia
Ankylosing Spondylitis
Asthma
Cancer
Celiac disease
CFIDS – chronic fatigue and immune dysfunction syndrome Coronary heart disease
Crohn’s disease
Cystic fibrosis
Diabetes, types 1 and 2
Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome
Fibromyalgia
Grave’s disease
Guillain Barre Syndrome
Hashimoto's Syndrome
Headache
Interstitial cystitis
Lupus
Lyme disease
Ménière's disease
Multiple sclerosis
Muscular dystrophy
Myasthenia Gravis
Osteoarthritis
Parkinson’s disease
Reflex sympathetic dystrophy (RSD) syndrome
Rheumatoid arthritis
Scleroderma
Sjogren’s syndrome
Tay-Sachs and Allied diseases
Ulcerative colitis

Statistics:

-About 1 in 3 Americans have a chronic illness (90 million people)
-1,634,976 deaths a year are from the top 5 chronic diseases (heart disease, cancer, stroke, COPD, and diabetes)
-This is 1,634,976 a year, 136,248 a month, 31,441 a week, 4,479 a day, 186 an hour, an 3 per minute.
-Chronic diseases are estimated to account for 3/4 of all deaths by 2020
-Leukemias and cancers of the brain and central nervous system account for more than half of the childhood cancers
-The causes of childhood cancers are largely unknown.
-In the US in 2007, 10,400 children under the age of 15 were diagnosed with cancer and 1,545 children died from the disease.
-Cancer is the #1 cause of disease related death for children.

Works Cited:
"Chronic Illness List." Chronic Illness Coach Tom Robinson. 21 July 2009 .
http://www.chronicillnesscoach.com/disease_list.html

"Childhood Cancer Statistics." Candle Lighters Childhood Cancer Foundation. Candle Lighters Childhood Cancer Foundation. 21 July 2009 .
http://www.candlelighters.org/Information/AboutChildhoodCancer/ChildhoodCancerStatistics/tabid/290/Default.aspx

"Statistics about Chronic Illness - WrongDiagnosis.com." Wrong Diagnosis. Health Grades Inc. 21 July 2009 .
http://www.wrongdiagnosis.com/c/chronic/stats.htm