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. 2015 Dec 16;139(4):920–929. doi: 10.1378/chest.10-1393

Figure 2.

Figure 2

The leading chronic diseases that caused disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) lost in China. Data were collected from the Chinese Center for Disease Control.29 The DALYs lost caused by chronic diseases accounted for 70% of the total DALYs lost. Cerebrovascular disease and COPD ranked as the top two leading causes of DALYs lost in China, responsible for 17.9% and 13.9%, respectively, followed by ischemic heart disease, gastric cancer, liver and lung cancer, and others.