2024-10-08 04:38:41
In 2022, France recorded a sharp increase in respiratory diseases other than Covid-19, to the point that they became the third cause of death after cancer and cardiovascular diseases, according to landmark studies published on Tuesday 8 October.
“Tumors and diseases of the circulatory system (ischemic heart disease, cerebrovascular diseases) remain the two main causes of death, but diseases of the respiratory system (…) become the third cause of death”according to the reference work of researchers from the Public Health France agency, the National Institute of Health and Medical Research (Inserm) and the statistics department of the Ministry of Health (Drees).
Every year, with a slight delay, these scientists take stock of the main causes of mortality. This is the year 2022, where more than 673,000 deaths have been recorded – more than in 2020 and 2021, two years however heavily affected by Covid-19.
The death rate has increased mainly due to“an increase in respiratory diseases linked to winter epidemics, Covid-19, still present despite its decline, an increase in external causes (accidents, falls, etc.)”in summary, to Agence France-Presse (AFP), Anne Fouillet, of Public Health France.
Cancer accounts for 25% of deaths
The main cause of death in France remains cancer. Responsible for more than a quarter of deaths in 2022, cancers killed slightly more men than women and, in more than half of cases, affected older adults aged 65 to 84. Cancer mortality, however, continued its downward trend, even if it stabilized among women. Lung, colorectal, breast, pancreatic and prostate cancers remained the most fatal.
So, cardio-neurovascular diseases (myocardial infarction, stroke, heart failure, etc.) caused more than a fifth of deaths. Mortality due to these pathologies has further increased, particularly among women and those over 85, exceeding pre-pandemic levels for the second year. According to the researchers, several countries have also reported an increase, including the United States, the United Kingdom and Norway.
Sharply increasing, deaths caused by respiratory diseases excluding Covid-19, in particular pneumonia, chronic diseases and influenza, represented 6.7% of the total, and returned to a level close to that of 2019. For Anne Fouillet And “mainly due to the effect of winter influenza epidemics (a late one in 2021-2022 and an early one in 2022-2023) and RSV [virus respiratoire syncytial, principal responsable de la bronchiolite]and, to a lesser extent, summer heat waves ».
«Covid was able to prevail a little in 2020-2021 over other causes of mortality, through a phenomenon of competition; in 2022 it is rather respiratory diseases that will take over”he explained. In 2022, Covid-19 fell to fifth place among the causes of mortality, with older victims compared to 2021, while remaining responsible for a notable mortality (6.1% of all deaths).
Increase in accidental deaths
Already evident in 2021, notable increases in deaths from endocrine, digestive and genitourinary diseases have been confirmed. And mortality due to nervous system diseases, including Alzheimer’s, and, to a lesser extent, other dementias, has risen to levels close to pre-pandemic levels. A phenomenon also observed in the United Kingdom.
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Another noteworthy fact: mortality from injuries, especially falls and home accidents, increased in 2022, especially among the elderly. Deaths due to transport accidents have also increased, without however returning to pre-Covid levels.
For the first time since 2020, mortality due to external causes (accidents, suicides, etc.) was this “significantly” higher than the pre-pandemic trend.
Overall, in the different causes of mortality, “the effects of sex and age combine in some way. Male excess mortality is very high at all ages and women who die are generally older than men.Elise Coudin (Inserm) told AFP.
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