According to Samara doctors, the most common cause of death is coronary heart disease.
The Ministry of Health of the Samara region has published a ranking of diseases from which Russians die most often. As it turned out, the first place in the list is the death rate from coronary heart disease, which claimed the lives of 7,986 people out of 16 thousand cases.
Atherosclerotic heart disease caused 4,698 deaths.
In addition, cerebrovascular diseases, including various forms of cerebrovascular disorders, killed 6.5 thousand people. In this category of diseases most often died of a stroke - 2 106 cases.
At the same time, experts have noted the gender factor. As it turned out, most often women die of cardiovascular disease - 51.9% of cases.
However, at working age men die of cardiovascular diseases more often - 85.3% of all deaths in this age group were caused by heart and vascular problems.