The Australian Bureau of Statistics has just released this report. The leading cause of death in 2007 was still Ischaemic heart diseases, but at 16% this is now a lower proportion than in 1998 when it accounted for 22% of deaths. Strokes have remained the second leading cause since 1998 and trachea and lung cancers have remained the third. Deaths due to Dementia and Alzheimer's Disease have risen from seventh place in 1998 to fourth place in 2007, with a 126% increase in the number of deaths from this cause over that period of time.
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