The soldiers without spleens were two times as likely to die of heart disease as the soldiers who still had their spleens.

VOA: special.2009.08.25

The heavier a person is the more likely they are to die of cardiovascular disease.

人越胖,死于心血管疾病的风险越高

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At the end of this sweep of the disease through your community, one in four, or one in five, of your neighbors would die from the disease.

当这场疾病风暴肆虐完毕之后,你的邻居中,有四分之一或者五分之一的人会死去

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The number of them who die each year from the disease could reach 17 million.

VOA: special.2009.01.13

What makes it so much better to be alive now in terms of your likelihood to die of an infectious disease than it did in London in 1665?

是什么让生活变得更好呢,从传染病死亡率的角度来讲,与1665年的伦敦相比

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African American children die from the disease at five times the rate of white children.

VOA: special.2009.07.28

They live much longer lives and they live to die of something else and the leading causes of death currently haven't changed very much since 1997 when this data was published: they die of heart disease and cancer primarily.

人们活的更久了,不过会死于另一些疾病,如今导致死亡的主要原因,并没有太大的变化,自一九九七年有相关数据公开开始,其显示人们主要死于心脏病和癌症

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"Which causes heart attacks and strokes." The World Health Organization reports an estimated 17 million people die of heart disease and stroke every year.

VOA: standard.2010.04.22

If smallpox occurred in your community, about 30 percent of the people that acquire the disease would die from it; the other 70 percent could be disabled or permanently disfigured as a result of the disease.

如果你周围有人得了天花的话,那么百分之三十的天花病人,会因此死亡,剩下的百分之七十会成为残疾或永久毁容,这都是天花造成的

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"No one today need die of TB." "No child should see the life of a mother or father destroyed by a disease that is completely curable.

VOA: standard.2010.07.12