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Andy Stein

What are the Top 10 Diseases (in Women and Men)?

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What are the Top 10 Diseases (in Women and Men)?

Naming the top 10 diseases is not easy. It depends what you mean, i.e. top 10 in terms of most common, most lethal, most infectious etc.

Anyway. These are the most common causes of death in the UK in 2023 (UK government, 2025). As you can see, they are different in men and women.

Notes

  1. COVID-19 is no longer in the top 10 for men and women. But some may be included in ‘infection and pneumonia’.
  2. ‘Heart disease’ is a combination of IHD and heart failure.
  3. ‘Chronic lower respiratory’ is mainly COPD.
  4. ‘Ill-defined conditions’ are (well!) ill-defined. We don’t know what they are either.

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