Causes of death among U.S. adults aged 65 or older by ethnicity 2007-2009
leading cause of death in the U.S. causing 168.5 deaths per 100,000 population. Cancer was the second leading cause of death that year, followed by accidents or unintentional injuries and chronic respiratory diseases.
The statistic depicts the leading causes of death among U.S. adults aged 65 or older in the period 2007-2009, by ethnicity. Heart diseases accounted for 27.6 percent of the deaths among Hispanic adults aged 65 or older in that period. In 2015, heart disease was the