{"id":1920,"date":"2014-01-14T11:57:28","date_gmt":"2014-01-14T14:57:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nchspressroom.wordpress.com\/?p=1920"},"modified":"2014-01-14T11:57:28","modified_gmt":"2014-01-14T14:57:28","slug":"hypothermia-deaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2014\/01\/14\/1920\/","title":{"rendered":"Hypothermia Deaths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With record-breaking cold weather sending single digit temperatures in most of the country, its important to stay warm.\u00a0 Prolonged exposure to the\u00a0cold will eventually use up your body&#8217;s stored energy and can lead to hypothermia.\u00a0 If gone untreated, hypothermia can lead to death.<\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/preview\/mmwrhtml\/mm6151a6.htm\">1999 to 2011<\/a>, a total of 16,911 deaths in the United States, an average of 1,301 per year, were associated with exposure to excessive natural cold. The highest yearly total of hypothermia-related deaths (1,536) was in 2010 and the lowest (1,058) in 2006. Approximately 67% of hypothermia-related deaths were among males.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on how to stay safe from hypothermia please click <a title=\"Hypothermia\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bt.cdc.gov\/disasters\/winter\/staysafe\/hypothermia.asp\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With record-breaking cold weather sending single digit temperatures in most of the country, its important to stay warm.\u00a0 Prolonged exposure to the\u00a0cold will eventually use up your body&#8217;s stored energy and can lead to hypothermia.\u00a0 If gone untreated, hypothermia can lead to death. From 1999 to 2011, a total of 16,911 deaths in the United<\/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":[63999,10583,64125,64280],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1920"}],"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=1920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1920\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}