title: By the Numbers: Mortality Burden of Heart Disease and Cancer, 1950-2014.
abstract: Although the number of deaths due to heart disease began a relatively steady decline in the 1990s, it remains the leading cause of death overall in the United States, followed by cancer. However, the gap between them has narrowed greatly since 1950, and in 2014, cancer deaths outnumbered deaths due to heart disease in 22 states.
mesh_terms: D006331:Heart Diseases / Q000401:mortality*; D006801:Humans; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000401:mortality*; D014481:United States