New data has revealed the leading causes of death for women and men in the Wingecarribee Shire.
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The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) released the figures on August 7, which was collected data between 2014 to 2018.
Dementia (including Alzheimer's disease) is the number one cause of death for women, while coronary heart disease is the leading cause of mortality for men.
The second highest cause for women was coronary heart disease followed by cerebrovascular disease.
Cerebrovascular disease and dementia (including Alzheimer disease) rounded out the top three causes of death for men.
The median age of death for men has improved from 79 years in 2014 to 81 years in 2018.
However the median age of death for women dropped from 85 years to 84 years.
There were 413 premature deaths for men under 75 from 2014 to 2018, and 256 premature deaths for women.
Of these premature deaths, there were 200 potentially avoidable deaths for men and 109 deaths for women.
Top 20 causes of death for women in the Wingecarribee Shire:
- Dementia (including Alzheimer disease)
- Coronary heart disease
- Cerebrovascular disease
- Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
- Breast cancer
- Lung cancer
- Hypertensive disease
- Diabetes
- Heart failure and complications and ill-defined heart disease
- Influenza and pneumonia
- Kidney failure
- Cancer of unknown or ill-defined primary site
- Pancreatic cancer
- Cardiac arrhythmias
- Colorectal cancer
- Other ill-defined causes
- Leukaemia
- Pulmonary oedema and other interstitial pulmonary diseases
- Exposure to unspecified factor
- Diseases of the musculoskeletal system and connective tissue
Top 20 causes of death for men in the Wingecarribee Shire:
- Coronary heart disease
- Cerebrovascular disease
- Dementia including Alzheimer disease
- Lung cancer
- Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
- Prostate cancer
- Diabetes
- Colorectal cancer
- Pancreatic cancer
- Parkinson disease
- Suicide
- Heart failure and complications and ill-defined heart disease
- Melanoma of the skin
- Cancer of unknown or ill-defined primary site
- Other ill-defined causes
- Leukaemia
- Oesophageal cancer
- Kidney failure
- Influenza and pneumonia
- Brain cancer
