If you lived in a typical city of 500,000, how many people would you expect to die due to chronic respiratory diseases in a year?

Mortality Rates. For Exercises, use the graphs in Figure 6.13 to answer the following questions.

Table 6.7

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TABLE 6.7 Leading Causes of Death In the United States Cause Number of deaths Cause Heart disease 611,105 Alzheimer's disease Cancer 584,881 Diabetes Chronic respiratory diseases 149,205 Pneumonia/influenza Accidents 130,557 Kidney disease Stroke 128,978 Suicide Number of deaths 84,767 75,578 56,979 47,112 41,149