{"id":2247,"date":"2014-05-15T16:44:29","date_gmt":"2014-05-15T19:44:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nchstats.com\/?p=2247"},"modified":"2014-05-15T16:44:29","modified_gmt":"2014-05-15T19:44:29","slug":"state-vitals-kansas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2014\/05\/15\/2247\/","title":{"rendered":"STATE VITALS: Kansas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"line-height:14.25pt\"><span style=\"color:#333333;font-family:'Georgia', 'serif';font-size:10pt\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/arthritis\/images\/arthritis_ks.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"99\" height=\"50\" \/>The state of <a title=\"STATE VITALS: KANSAS\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/pressroom\/states\/KS_2014.pdf\"><span style=\"color:#0000ff\">Kansas<\/span><\/a> scores lower than the nation overall in cesarean deliveries, preterm births, and low birthweight. The state also has a lower mortality rate in homicides and drug poisoning deaths.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height:14.25pt\"><span style=\"color:#333333;font-family:'Georgia', 'serif';font-size:10pt\">However, among the 10 leading causes of death in the United States, <a title=\"STATE VITALS: KANSAS\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/pressroom\/states\/KS_2014.pdf\"><span style=\"color:#0000ff\">Kansas<\/span><\/a> has mortality rates that are higher than the U.S. rates for the following causes: chronic lower respiratory diseases, stroke, accidents, kidney disease, influenza\/pneumonia, and suicide.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The state of Kansas scores lower than the nation overall in cesarean deliveries, preterm births, and low birthweight. The state also has a lower mortality rate in homicides and drug poisoning deaths. However, among the 10 leading causes of death in the United States, Kansas has mortality rates that are higher than the U.S. rates<\/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\/2247"}],"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=2247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2247\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}