{"id":1900,"date":"2014-01-02T18:03:16","date_gmt":"2014-01-02T21:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nchspressroom.wordpress.com\/?p=1900"},"modified":"2014-01-02T18:03:16","modified_gmt":"2014-01-02T21:03:16","slug":"state-vitals-alabama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2014\/01\/02\/1900\/","title":{"rendered":"STATE VITALS: ALABAMA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"STATE VITALS: ALABAMA\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/pressroom\/states\/AL_2013.pdf\">Alabama<\/a>\u00a0ranks among the top ten states for rates of preterm births, teen births and low birthweight.\u00a0 <a title=\"STATE VITALS: ALABAMA\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/pressroom\/states\/AL_2013.pdf\">Alabama<\/a> also ranks higher than the entire U.S. in mortality for all ten leading causes of death, which include:\u00a0 heart disease, cancer, chronic lower respiratory diseases, stroke, accidents, Alzheimer\u2019s disease, diabetes, kidney disease, influenza\/pneumonia and suicide.<\/p>\n<p>However, since 2005 mortality rates in <a title=\"STATE VITALS: ALABAMA\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/pressroom\/states\/AL_2013.pdf\">Alabama<\/a> for 8 out of 10 of these leading causes of death has declined (all causes except kidney disease and suicide).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alabama\u00a0ranks among the top ten states for rates of preterm births, teen births and low birthweight.\u00a0 Alabama also ranks higher than the entire U.S. in mortality for all ten leading causes of death, which include:\u00a0 heart disease, cancer, chronic lower respiratory diseases, stroke, accidents, Alzheimer\u2019s disease, diabetes, kidney disease, influenza\/pneumonia and suicide. However, since 2005<\/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":[63844,63651],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1900"}],"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=1900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1900\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}