{"id":3149,"date":"2016-06-03T16:41:29","date_gmt":"2016-06-03T19:41:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nchstats.com\/?p=3149"},"modified":"2016-06-03T16:41:29","modified_gmt":"2016-06-03T19:41:29","slug":"the-effect-of-changes-in-selected-age-specific-causes-of-death-on-non-hispanic-white-life-expectancy-between-2000-and-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2016\/06\/03\/3149\/","title":{"rendered":"The Effect of Changes in Selected Age-specific Causes of Death on Non-Hispanic White Life Expectancy Between 2000 and 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/data\/databriefs\/db250.pdf\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/images\/databriefs\/201-250\/db250_fig1.png\" width=\"424\" height=\"322\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Between 2000 and 2014, life expectancy at birth in the United States increased by 2 years. The non-Hispanic black population experienced the greatest gain, followed by the Hispanic population.<\/p>\n<p>The non-Hispanic white population experienced the smallest gain. Changes in life expectancy over time are directly affected by increases and decreases in age-specific death rates and age-specific cause of death rates.<\/p>\n<p>NCHS released a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/data\/databriefs\/db250.pdf\">report<\/a> this week describing the relationship between increases in all-cause age-specific and cause-specific death rates and the change in life expectancy for the non-Hispanic white population between 2000 and 2014 is explored.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Findings:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Between 2000 and 2014, life expectancy increased by 3.6, 2.6, and 1.4 years, respectively, for non-Hispanic black, Hispanic, and non-Hispanic white persons.<\/li>\n<li>The 1.4-year increase in life expectancy for non-Hispanic white persons would have been greater if not for increases in death rates due to unintentional injuries, suicide, Alzheimer\u2019s disease, chronic liver disease, and hypertension.<\/li>\n<li>Increases in death rates due to unintentional injuries, suicide, and chronic liver disease were large enough to increase all-cause non-Hispanic white death rates for ages 25\u201334, 35\u201344, and 45\u201354.<\/li>\n<li>Increases in death rates due to unintentional poisonings for ages 25\u201334, 35\u201344, and 45\u201354 had the greatest impact on the change in life expectancy for non-Hispanic white persons.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Between 2000 and 2014, life expectancy at birth in the United States increased by 2 years. The non-Hispanic black population experienced the greatest gain, followed by the Hispanic population. The non-Hispanic white population experienced the smallest gain. Changes in life expectancy over time are directly affected by increases and decreases in age-specific death rates and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63656],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3149"}],"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=3149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}