CDC estimates preventable deaths from 5 leading causes

The 28% of those stroke deaths possibly could have been prevented are probably the standard 80-90% that are just generically preventable by blood pressure control, overweight, cholesterol. I bet a lot more could be prevented in the 30day death category if only our fucking failures of stroke associations would stop the  neuronal cascade of death by these 5 causes in the first week.
https://www.mdlinx.com/family-medicine/medical-news-article/2016/11/22/6953423/?

American Pharmacists Association News, 11/23/2016

New CDC research shows that the number of potentially preventable deaths dropped from 2010 to 2014 for three of the five top causes of death in the United States. The five leading causes of death for people younger than aged 80 years in 2014 were diseases of the heart, cancers, stroke, chronic lower respiratory diseases (CLRD), and unintentional injuries, collectively accounting for 63% of all deaths that year. CDC estimates that 15% of these cancer deaths, 30% of these heart–disease deaths, 43% of those unintentional–injury deaths, 36% of these CLRD deaths, and 28% of those stroke deaths possibly could have been prevented. Compared with 4 years earlier, potentially preventable cancer deaths dropped 25%; potentially preventable deaths from stroke declined 11%; potentially preventable deaths from heart disease decreased 4%; potentially preventable deaths from accidents increased 23%, in large part due to drug poisonings and falls; and potentially preventable deaths from CLRD rose 1%. "Fewer Americans are dying young from preventable causes of death," said CDC Director Tom Frieden, MD MPH.

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