A new map released by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has offered the most distinctive causes of death in each state across the country. The map suggests that heart disease and cancer could be counted as the leading cause of mortality around the United States. The CDC map uses the data and medical records between 2001 and 2010.

After heart related ailments and cancers, diabetes, flu related illnesses and inflammatory diseases of pelvic organs were among the causes of death.

Some of the ratings highlighted in the map were quite surprising, such as in mining states of West Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Kentucky, where pneumoconioses, was the most distinctive cause of death. Pneumoconioses are brought on by inhaling certain dusts.

In Maine, Wyoming, and the Dakotas the disease which caused highest fatalities was influenza. Fatalities due to plane and boat crashes were deemed to be most distinctive in Idaho and Alaska.

Deaths due to law enforcement officials, which have resulted in protests and riots around the nation, were rated as the most distinctive cause of mortality in New Mexico, Oregon, and Nevada. 15,000 people lost their life in Florida due to HIV.

Also, Sepsis, a body's reaction to an infection, was determined to be New Jersey's most distinctive method of death.

The research team said, “The map is a somewhat of a colorful and provocative way of starting some conversations and highlighting some unusual things that are going on.”

Researchers started their study by creating a chart and studied 113 different causes of deaths from 2001 to 2010, using the database provided by CDC.

Researchers during the study compared average death rates from each cause across the nations to that seen in each state. Furthermore, causes found to be the greatest in each state as compared to the national average, were declared to be the most distinctive form of death in that region.

They found that in 22 states, the most distinctive cause of death resulted in fewer than 100 fatalities, including the 22 fatalities from syphilis recorded in Louisiana.

Co-author Francis P. Boscoe of the New York State Cancer Registry, said, “If something is almost nonexistent everywhere in the country, but there's a handful of them in one state, then that could show up”.

Only four out of every 100,000 Alaskans die in plane or boat accidents, but that rate is nearly 6.7 times as great as that seen in the rest of the country.