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Table of Contents \| Summary \| Population \| Births \| Deaths \| Marriages \| Divorces \| County Data	Tables extracted from the 2000 West Virginia Vital Statistics Annual Report

Leading Causes of Death	Sixty-Five to Seventy-Four Years
	Male		Female		Total
	Number	Percent	Number	Percent	Number	Percent
Total Deaths, All Causes	2,350	100.0	1,912	100.0	4,262	100.0
Malignant Neoplasms	711	30.3	630	32.9	1,341	31.5
Diseases of the Heart	751	32.0	504	26.4	1,255	29.4
Chronic Lower Respiratory Diseases	189	8.0	178	9.3	367	8.6
Cerebrovascular Disease	107	4.6	106	5.5	213	5.0
Diabetes Mellitus	76	3.2	108	5.6	184	4.3
Accidents	52	2.2	23	1.2	75	1.8
Nephritis, Nephrotic Syndrome, and Nephrosis	42	1.8	32	1.7	74	1.7
Chronic Liver Disease and Cirrhosis	32	1.4	29	1.5	61	1.4
Septicemia	26	1.1	21	1.1	47	1.1
Influenza and Pneumonia	20	0.9	23	1.2	43	1.0
Coalworker's Pneumoconiosis	26	1.1	0	0.0	26	0.6
All Other Causes (Residual)	318	13.5	258	13.5	576	13.5
Leading Causes of Death	Sixty-Five to Seventy-Four Years
	Male		Female		Total
	Number	Percent	Number	Percent	Number	Percent