Diseases of the circulatory system, led by ischemic heart disease, are the leading cause of death in Spain, accounting for 28.3% of deaths.
Notes on verification
Confirmed by official INE 2018 mortality statistics, corroborated independently by Spanish Society of Cardiology press release and a peer-reviewed PMC epidemiological review, all consistent with the 28.3% figure. [tier=gold indep_score=0.838 clusters=4 claim_tier=notable | framework convergence=single on INE official cause-of-death mortality statistics for 2018 (upstreams: Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE) - Estadística de Defunciones según la Causa de Muerte, 2018) — publishers independent, evidence may not be | kind=empirical eligibility=high]
Sources
- CirugÃa de revascularización miocárdica: análisis de supervivencia a corto y largo plazo (seed:health_and_medicine)
- https://www.ine.es/prensa/edcm_2018.pdf (corroboration)
- https://secardiologia.es/comunicacion/notas-de-prensa/notas-de-prensa-sec/11279-el-sur-de-espana-y-levante-encabezan-la-mortalidad-cardiovascular-del-pais (corroboration)
- https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7801219 (corroboration)
- https://www.ecoportal.net/paises/enfermedades-del-sistema-circulatorio/ (corroboration)