{"id":2446,"date":"2014-09-29T14:56:17","date_gmt":"2014-09-29T17:56:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nchstats.com\/?p=2446"},"modified":"2014-09-29T14:56:17","modified_gmt":"2014-09-29T17:56:17","slug":"quickstats-percentage-of-suicide-deaths-by-mechanism-and-age-group-united-states-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2014\/09\/29\/2446\/","title":{"rendered":"QuickStats: Percentage of Suicide Deaths by Mechanism and Age Group \u2014 United States, 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/preview\/mmwrhtml\/mm6338a8.htm\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/preview\/mmwrhtml\/figures\/m6338qsf.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"437\" height=\"270\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In 2011, firearm was the leading mechanism for suicide deaths for all age groups, ranging from 44% of suicides among persons aged 5\u201324 years to 72% of suicides among persons aged 65 years or older. Suffocation was the second leading mechanism in the two younger age groups (41% of suicides among persons aged 5\u201324 years and 32% of suicides among persons aged 25\u201344 years). In contrast, poisoning was the second leading mechanism (22%) among adults aged 45\u201364 years and those aged 65 years or older\u00a0(8%).<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"QuickStats: Percentage of Suicide Deaths, by Mechanism* and Age Group \u2014 United States, 2011 \" href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/preview\/mmwrhtml\/mm6338a8.htm\">http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/preview\/mmwrhtml\/mm6338a8.htm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2011, firearm was the leading mechanism for suicide deaths for all age groups, ranging from 44% of suicides among persons aged 5\u201324 years to 72% of suicides among persons aged 65 years or older. Suffocation was the second leading mechanism in the two younger age groups (41% of suicides among persons aged 5\u201324 years<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49481,15995],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2446"}],"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=2446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2446\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}