{"id":2561,"date":"2014-12-17T16:38:07","date_gmt":"2014-12-17T19:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nchstats.com\/?p=2561"},"modified":"2014-12-17T16:38:07","modified_gmt":"2014-12-17T19:38:07","slug":"state-vitals-missouri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2014\/12\/17\/2561\/","title":{"rendered":"STATE VITALS: MISSOURI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/pressroom\/states\/MO_2014.pdf\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/HomeandRecreationalSafety\/images\/poisoning\/laws\/state\/mo.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"152\" height=\"132\" \/><\/a>The state of\u00a0<a title=\"STATE VITALS: MISSOURI\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/pressroom\/states\/MO_2014.pdf\">Missouri<\/a> scores lower than the nation overall in percent in births to unmarried mothers, cesarean delivery rate and preterm birth rate.<\/p>\n<p>However, among the 10 leading causes of death in the United States,\u00a0<a title=\"STATE VITALS: MISSOURI\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/pressroom\/states\/MO_2014.pdf\">Missouri<\/a> has mortality rates that are higher than the U.S. rates for the following causes: heart disease, cancer, chronic lower respiratory disease, stroke, accidents, Alzheimer&#8217;s disease, influenza\/pneumonia, kidney disease\u00a0and suicide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The state of\u00a0Missouri scores lower than the nation overall in percent in births to unmarried mothers, cesarean delivery rate and preterm birth rate. However, among the 10 leading causes of death in the United States,\u00a0Missouri has mortality rates that are higher than the U.S. rates for the following causes: heart disease, cancer, 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":[63928,63946,64151,64274,64346],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2561"}],"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=2561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2561\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}