{"id":2158,"date":"2014-04-17T12:37:17","date_gmt":"2014-04-17T15:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nchstats.com\/?p=2158"},"modified":"2014-04-17T12:37:17","modified_gmt":"2014-04-17T15:37:17","slug":"state-vitals-iowa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2014\/04\/17\/2158\/","title":{"rendered":"STATE VITALS: IOWA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"STATE VITALS: IOWA\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/pressroom\/states\/IA_2014.pdf\">Iowa<\/a> has mortality rates that are lower than the United States rate in firearm deaths, homicide and drug poisoning deaths.\u00a0 The state also has the 5th lowest mortality rate for kidney disease and ranks 11th\u00a0 in percent of births to unmarried mothers.<\/p>\n<p>However, <a title=\"STATE VITALS: IOWA\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/pressroom\/states\/IA_2014.pdf\">Iowa<\/a> has\u00a0mortality rates that are higher than the U.S.\u00a0for chronic lower respiratory disease and Alzheimer&#8217;s disease.\u00a0 The state is also tied with the U.S. rate in suicides.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iowa has mortality rates that are lower than the United States rate in firearm deaths, homicide and drug poisoning deaths.\u00a0 The state also has the 5th lowest mortality rate for kidney disease and ranks 11th\u00a0 in percent of births to unmarried mothers. However, Iowa has\u00a0mortality rates that are higher than the U.S.\u00a0for chronic lower respiratory<\/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\/2158"}],"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=2158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}