Potential Years of Life Lost prior to age 70  added 5/11/01
The years in the chart below should be 1,000's of life years, rather than life years.
   since 120,000 people died of injury in 1998, and each injury death removes about 35 life years.
        for a total of 4,200,000 life years.
Thus the potential year of life lost each year should be:
  4,316,000 Injury,
  2,807,000 Cancer, 
  2,450,000 Heart Disease, 
     430,000 AIDS, 
     383,000 Stroke
           1987 data for the United States  From Injury Fact Book 1992

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