{"id":2520,"date":"2014-11-19T13:23:58","date_gmt":"2014-11-19T16:23:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nchstats.com\/?p=2520"},"modified":"2014-11-19T13:23:58","modified_gmt":"2014-11-19T16:23:58","slug":"state-vitals-mississippi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2014\/11\/19\/2520\/","title":{"rendered":"STATE VITALS: MISSISSIPPI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/pressroom\/states\/MS_2014.pdf\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/emergency.cdc.gov\/chemical\/2010gulfoilspill\/images\/map_MS_100px.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"102\" height=\"152\" \/><\/a>The state of\u00a0<a title=\"Stats of the State of Michigan\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/pressroom\/states\/MI_2014.pdf\">Mississippi<\/a> scores lower than the nation overall in drug poisoning deaths.<\/p>\n<p>However,\u00a0\u00a0<a title=\"Stats of the State of Michigan\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/pressroom\/states\/MI_2014.pdf\">Mississippi<\/a> ranks higher than the entire U.S. in mortality for all ten leading causes of death, which include:\u00a0 heart disease, cancer, chronic lower respiratory diseases, stroke, accidents, Alzheimer\u2019s disease, diabetes, kidney disease, influenza\/pneumonia and suicide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The state of\u00a0Mississippi scores lower than the nation overall in drug poisoning deaths. However,\u00a0\u00a0Mississippi ranks higher than the entire U.S. in mortality for all ten leading causes of death, which include:\u00a0 heart disease, cancer, chronic lower respiratory diseases, stroke, accidents, Alzheimer\u2019s disease, diabetes, kidney disease, influenza\/pneumonia and suicide.<\/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":[62213,63948,64010,5747,63651,20556],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2520"}],"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=2520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2520\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}