{"id":3041,"date":"2016-01-25T17:39:23","date_gmt":"2016-01-25T20:39:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nchstats.com\/?p=3041"},"modified":"2016-01-25T17:39:23","modified_gmt":"2016-01-25T20:39:23","slug":"mortality-among-centenarians-in-the-united-states-2000%e2%94%802014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2016\/01\/25\/3041\/","title":{"rendered":"Mortality Among Centenarians in the United States, 2000\u25002014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/data\/databriefs\/db233.pdf\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/genomics\/update\/file\/images\/spotlight\/2013-10_elder.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"241\" height=\"136\" \/><\/a>The population of the United States is aging. Although centenarians are still uncommon, the numbers of Americans aged 100 and over increased 43.6%, from 50,281 in 2000 to 72,197 in 2014. As the number of centenarians increases, so does the number of deaths in this age group.<\/p>\n<p>NCHS has released a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/data\/databriefs\/db233.pdf\">report<\/a> with mortality data filed by the 50 states and the District of Columbia for years 2000 through 2014 that was\u00a0analyzed to determine the number of deaths, age-specific death rates by race and ethnicity, and sex-specific leading causes of death among centenarians.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Death rates for centenarians increased from 2000 through 2008 and then decreased through 2014 for both males and females.<\/li>\n<li>Death rates for centenarians increased from 2000 through 2006 for the Hispanic population and from 2000 through 2008 for the non-Hispanic white and black populations, and subsequently decreased through 2014 for all racial and ethnic groups examined.<\/li>\n<li>The top five causes of death among centenarians in 2014 were heart disease, Alzheimer\u2019s disease, stroke, cancer, and influenza and pneumonia.<\/li>\n<li>Death rates for Alzheimer\u2019s disease increased 119% between 2000 and 2014 among centenarians.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The population of the United States is aging. Although centenarians are still uncommon, the numbers of Americans aged 100 and over increased 43.6%, from 50,281 in 2000 to 72,197 in 2014. As the number of centenarians increases, so does the number of deaths in this age group. NCHS has released a report with mortality data<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53751],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3041"}],"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=3041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3041\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}