{"id":2803,"date":"2015-05-22T11:28:54","date_gmt":"2015-05-22T14:28:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nchstats.com\/?p=2803"},"modified":"2015-05-22T11:28:54","modified_gmt":"2015-05-22T14:28:54","slug":"state-vitals-north-carolina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2015\/05\/22\/2803\/","title":{"rendered":"STATE VITALS: NORTH CAROLINA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/pressroom\/states\/NC_2014.pdf\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/niosh\/topics\/ables\/images\/ncmap.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"192\" height=\"79\" \/><\/a>The state of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/pressroom\/states\/NC_2014.pdf\">North Carolina<\/a> scores\u00a0higher\u00a0than the nation overall in births to unmarried mothers, preterm births, teen births and low birthweight.\u00a0The state\u00a0also has a higher homicide rate and higher mortality rate from drug overdose deaths than the national\u00a0rate.<\/p>\n<p>However, the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/pressroom\/states\/NC_2014.pdf\">Tar Heel state<\/a>\u00a0has a larger proportion of its population with health insurance than the national average and\u00a0a lower\u00a0mortality rate in heart disease than the national rate.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a list of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/data\/dvs\/LCWK9_2013.pdf\">15 leading causes of death in North Carolina in 2013<\/a> with ICD 10 codes:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Malignant neoplasms (C00-C97)<\/li>\n<li>Diseases of heart (I00-I09,I11,I13,I20-I51)<\/li>\n<li>Chronic lower respiratory diseases (J40-J47)<\/li>\n<li>Cerebrovascular diseases (I60-I69)<\/li>\n<li>Accidents (unintentional injuries) (V01-X59,Y85-Y86)<\/li>\n<li>Alzheimer&#8217;s disease (G30)<\/li>\n<li>Diabetes mellitus (E10-E14)<\/li>\n<li>Influenza and pneumonia (J09-J18)<\/li>\n<li>Nephritis, nephrotic syndrome and nephrosis (N00-N07,N17-N19,N25-N27)<\/li>\n<li>Septicemia (A40-A41)<\/li>\n<li>Intentional self-harm (suicide) (U03,X60-X84,Y87.0)<\/li>\n<li>Chronic liver disease and cirrhosis (K70,K73-K74)<\/li>\n<li>Essential hypertension and hypertensive renal disease (I10,I12,I15)<\/li>\n<li>Parkinson&#8217;s disease (G20-G21)<\/li>\n<li>Pneumonitis due to solids and liquids (J69)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The state of\u00a0North Carolina scores\u00a0higher\u00a0than the nation overall in births to unmarried mothers, preterm births, teen births and low birthweight.\u00a0The state\u00a0also has a higher homicide rate and higher mortality rate from drug overdose deaths than the national\u00a0rate. However, the\u00a0Tar Heel state\u00a0has a larger proportion of its population with health insurance than the national average and\u00a0a<\/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\/2803"}],"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=2803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2803\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}