RT Journal
A1 Kuehn BM
T1 US death rate down
JF JAMA
JO JAMA
YR 2011
FD April 27
VO 305
IS 16
SP 1646
OP 1646
DO 10.1001/jama.2011.537
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.2011.537
AB 
The decrease was driven in part by significant declines in death rates for 10 of the 15 leading causes of death in the United States. The death rates from heart disease declined 3.7%; cancer, 1.1%; chronic lower respiratory disease, 4.1%; stroke, 4.2%; unintentional injury, 4.1%; Alzheimer disease, 4.1%; diabetes, 4.1%; influenza and pneumonia, 4.7%; septicemia, 1.8%; and homicide, 6.8%.