{"id":2444,"date":"2014-09-29T14:46:15","date_gmt":"2014-09-29T17:46:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nchstats.com\/?p=2444"},"modified":"2014-09-29T14:46:15","modified_gmt":"2014-09-29T17:46:15","slug":"state-vitals-massachusetts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2014\/09\/29\/2444\/","title":{"rendered":"STATE VITALS: MASSACHUSETTS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/pressroom\/states\/MA_2014.pdf\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/violenceprevention\/images\/ma.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"140\" \/><\/a>The state of\u00a0<a title=\"STATE VITALS: MASSACHUSETTS\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/pressroom\/states\/Ma_2014.pdf\">Massachusetts<\/a> scores lower than the nation overall in percent of births to unmarried mothers, cesarean delivery rate, preterm birth rate, teen birth rate and birthweight rate. The state also has a lower mortality rate in\u00a0homicide, firearm\u00a0and drug poisoning deaths.<\/p>\n<p>However, among the 10 leading causes of death in the United States,\u00a0<a title=\"STATE VITALS: MASSACHUSETTS\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/pressroom\/states\/Ma_2014.pdf\">Massachusetts<\/a> has mortality rates that are higher than the U.S. rates for the following causes: kidney disease and influenza\/pneumonia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The state of\u00a0Massachusetts scores lower than the nation overall in percent of births to unmarried mothers, cesarean delivery rate, preterm birth rate, teen birth rate and birthweight rate. The state also has a lower mortality rate in\u00a0homicide, firearm\u00a0and drug poisoning deaths. However, among the 10 leading causes of death in the United States,\u00a0Massachusetts has mortality<\/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\/2444"}],"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=2444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2444\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}