{"id":1814,"date":"2013-12-19T17:49:06","date_gmt":"2013-12-19T20:49:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nchspressroom.wordpress.com\/?p=1814"},"modified":"2013-12-19T17:49:06","modified_gmt":"2013-12-19T20:49:06","slug":"state-vitals-vermont","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2013\/12\/19\/1814\/","title":{"rendered":"STATE VITALS: VERMONT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Stats of the States: Vermont\" href=\"http:\/\/go.usa.gov\/Z2fW\">Vermont<\/a>\u00a0has the lowest preterm birth rate in the country (8.8% of all births) and a significantly lower rate than the U.S. as a whole (11.7%). The state\u2019s teen birth rate is also lower than the overall U.S. rate (16.8% vs. 31.3%).\u00a0\u00a0<a title=\"Stats of the States: Vermont\" href=\"http:\/\/go.usa.gov\/Z2fW\">Vermont<\/a> has the 10th lowest low birthweight rate in the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>However, among the ten leading causes of death in the U.S., <a title=\"Stats of the States: Vermont\" href=\"http:\/\/go.usa.gov\/Z2fW\">Vermont<\/a> has mortality rates that are higher than the U.S. rate for the following causes: cancer, chronic lower respiratory disease, Alzheimer&#8217;s disease, accidents and suicide. The state also has higher rates of firearm deaths than the overall U.S. rate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vermont\u00a0has the lowest preterm birth rate in the country (8.8% of all births) and a significantly lower rate than the U.S. as a whole (11.7%). The state\u2019s teen birth rate is also lower than the overall U.S. rate (16.8% vs. 31.3%).\u00a0\u00a0Vermont has the 10th lowest low birthweight rate in the U.S. However, among the ten<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1814"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/195"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1814\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}