Each colored segment is the share of total US deaths owned by one atlas analysis under strict UCOD-priority deduplication. The grey segment is what the atlas does not currently address (COVID-19, septicemia, homicide, infant mortality, congenital, ill-defined causes). Hover any segment for details.
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| # | Analysis | Domain | Role | Annual Deaths (NET unique) |
% of US | UCOD Scope | Overlap with |
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Authoritative 2024 leading-cause data against which atlas attributions are validated. Total 2024 deaths: —.
| Cause / ICD-10 | Annual US Deaths | % of Total |
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The 619,078 annual deaths not addressed by any current atlas analysis fall into these categories:
1. UCOD undercounts true disease burden. Diabetes is UCOD on ~94K death certificates but appears as a contributing cause on ~270K. CKD: 55K UCOD vs ~250K contributing. Dementia: ~150K UCOD vs estimates as high as 500K under broader definitions. Under contributing-cause attribution the deduplicated total would rise into the 2.7–2.9M range — closely matching the homepage's "2.8 million" claim. The UCOD convention here is more conservative and statistically defensible but mechanically understates disease burden.
2. "Coverage" conflates two different claims. Owning a UCOD chapter ≠ having a complete intervention surface for every death in that chapter. The cancer analysis covers a finite set of variants and stages, not every C-code. The 79.9% figure represents UCOD-chapter coverage, not fraction of deaths the atlas can demonstrably reduce. The latter is bounded above by 79.9% and below by something materially smaller, set by per-analysis Pareto N80 risk reduction (typically 60–80%) compounded with intervention deliverability.
3. Non-fatal endpoints have indirect mortality benefit. Analyses #3, #5, #6, #7, #18 show zero in the NET column because their primary endpoints are non-fatal. This understates their mortality contribution: OA mobility loss increases all-cause mortality via deconditioning; ADHD raises MVC and overdose risk; BPH with AUR can precipitate urosepsis. A more generous count assigning each 2-10K indirect deaths would push the total ~25K higher — still within the 80% range.
4. Homepage claim of "2.8 million" is not internally derived. The homepage figure appears chosen as a round approximation to the pre-pandemic baseline US death total rather than computed from the 26-analysis intervention surface. The bottom-up UCOD count produced here (2.45M) is lower by ~12%. The homepage should arguably be either (a) the rigorous 2.45M with the UCOD-priority caveat, or (b) the broader ~2.8M with the contributing-cause caveat — the two framings answer different questions and the page does not currently distinguish them.