{"id":1927,"date":"2014-01-10T19:23:41","date_gmt":"2014-01-10T22:23:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nchspressroom.wordpress.com\/?p=1927"},"modified":"2014-01-10T19:23:41","modified_gmt":"2014-01-10T22:23:41","slug":"state-vitals-alaska","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2014\/01\/10\/1927\/","title":{"rendered":"STATE VITALS: ALASKA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The state known as &#8220;The Last Frontier&#8221; has the highest suicide rate and ranks 6th in accidents. <a title=\"STATE VITALS:\u00a0ALASKA\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/pressroom\/states\/AK_2013.pdf\">Alaska<\/a> also has\u00a0mortality rates that are higher than the U.S.\u00a0for the following causes: cancer, stroke, Alzheimer\u2019s disease and influenza\/pneumonia.<\/p>\n<p>However, <a title=\"STATE VITALS: ALASKA\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/pressroom\/states\/AK_2013.pdf\">Alaska<\/a> had the lowest rates in the country for low birthweight rate (6% of all births) and cesarean delivery rates (20.8% of all births). \u00a0The state also ranks among the 10 lowest rates for heart disease mortality, with an age-adjusted death rate of 151.5.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"STATE VITALS: WYOMING\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/pressroom\/states\/WY_2013.pdf\">\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The state known as &#8220;The Last Frontier&#8221; has the highest suicide rate and ranks 6th in accidents. Alaska also has\u00a0mortality rates that are higher than the U.S.\u00a0for the following causes: cancer, stroke, Alzheimer\u2019s disease and influenza\/pneumonia. However, Alaska had the lowest rates in the country for low birthweight rate (6% of all births) and cesarean<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53749],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1927"}],"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=1927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1927\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}