HEARTS. But Cars???

This is a data from http://www.statistics.gov.my/. I shock after i read this stats. I thought the top three list will be systemic diseases, but turns out to be ischemic heart disease and first runner up is transport accident? whuoaa.. u know how many hours in a day people spend time in the road. This means every second we are in the road, we risk our life~! That is so scary. Something need to be done so our transportation system.

A) Male and Female: Ischaemic heart disease (e.g. heart attack) that caused death is in the increase by about 1.5% to 14.4% (Male) & increase by about 0.8% to 8.3% (Female).

B) Female: malignant neoplasm of breast (e.g. cancerous breast tumour) that caused death is also in the increase by about 0.9% to 6.2%.

C) Male: transport accident: although stable, it is consistently the 2nd highest cause of death at about 12%.

Data:

Causes of Death in Malaysia
	2005	2006	2007	2007 -2005
1. Total death	113,714	115,084	118,167	4,453
1.1 Male death	65,243	66,210	68,167	2,924
1.2 Male death %	57.4%	57.5%	57.7%	0.3%
1.3 Female death	48,471	48,874	50,000	1,529
1.4 Female death %	42.6%	42.5%	42.3%	-0.3%
1.3 Medically certified	65,941	68,124	71,030	5,089
1.4 Not Medically certified	47,773	46,960	47,137	-636
7. Top 5 principal causes of death (Medically certified) Male 15-64 years	41.3%	41.2%	42.5%	1.2%
7.1 Ischaemic heart disease	12.9%	13.3%	14.4%	1.5%
7.2 Transport accident	11.7%	11.8%	11.8%	0.1%
7.3 Septicaemia	6.9%	6.3%	5.9%	-1.0%
7.4 Cerebrovascular disease	5.6%	5.5%	5.8%	0.2%
7.5 Pneumonia	4.2%	4.3%	4.6%	0.4%
8. Top 5 principal causes of death (Medically certified) Female 15-64 years	34.0%	30.1%	35.3%	1.3%
8.1 Septicaemia	9.5%	9.2%	8.5%	-1.0%
8.2 Ischaemic heart disease	7.5%	7.9%	8.3%	0.8%
8.3 Cerebrovascular disease	7.3%	7.2%	7.2%	-0.1%
8.4 Malignant neoplasm of breast	5.3%	5.8%	6.2%	0.9%
8.5 Transport accident	4.4%	> TOP 5	> TOP 5
8.6 Pneumonia	> TOP 5	4.5%	5.1%