Diabetes and High Blood Pressure Deaths Rise, While Heart Disease and Cancer Deaths Drophttp://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2001/07/07/heart-disease-cancer.aspxFewer Americans are dying from heart disease and cancer, the two leading causes of death in the US. Although these age-related death rates continued to fall in 1999 when compared to 1998 figures, there were increases in other leading causes of death,enCommunityServer 2008.5 SP1 (Build: 31106.3070)