in 2017 accounted for 67.8 percent of all infant deaths. In addition, the top 10 leading causes of infant death in the U.S. The rate for cardiovascular disease and kidney disease "did not change significantly," the rate of cancer decreased, while the remaining 7 causes of death increased. Researchers looked at the 2,813,503 deaths documented in the National Vital Statics System from 2016 to 2017 and found that the top 10 leading causes of death – cardiovascular disease, cancer, unintentional injuries, chronic lower respiratory diseases, stroke, Alzheimer disease, diabetes, influenza and pneumonia, kidney disease and suicide – remained unchanged from 2016, and accounted for 74 percent of all deaths in the U.S. and the rate did not change in 2017, and the leading cause of infant death continues to be congenital malformations, according to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Health Statistics data brief published online Nov. Cardiovascular disease is still the leading cause of death in the U.S.
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