Claim: The top three causes of death here are heart disease, cancer and prescription medication.
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Verdict: office for national statistics' figures show the top three leading causes of death in england were dementia and alzheimer's disease, ischaemic heart diseases, and chronic lower respiratory diseases. that's looking at the five-year average, age-standardised mortality rates.
Organisation: Full Fact
Author: Joe Gammie
Date published: 2023-04-18T00:00:00