Interesting, I thought Alzheimer's would give cancer a run for its money since the average age of the world's population is increasing (although cancer mortality is highly correlated with age as well).
Pretty much everything is correlated with age in one way or another. If one thing doesn't get you, something else eventually will.
With the ever increasing waistlines of Americans and other peoples with a sedentary lifestyle, you would think diabetes would become a bigger problem as well. I guess the methods of fighting diabetes (diet and exercise) are far cheaper than the methods of fighting cancer, so perhaps there is hope to stem the tide of obesity and diabetes.
The problem with classifying someone as dying by diabetes is that it's like saying someone died from old age. Even if someone dies from cancer, it doesn't mean that it wasn't influenced by a diabetic or pre-diabetic condition.
Edited by shepard, 11 December 2008 - 07:25 AM.