{"id":3182,"date":"2016-08-12T11:18:18","date_gmt":"2016-08-12T14:18:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nchstats.com\/?p=3182"},"modified":"2016-08-12T11:18:18","modified_gmt":"2016-08-12T14:18:18","slug":"quickstats-age-adjusted-death-rates-for-males-aged-15-44-years-by-the-five-leading-causes-of-death-united-states-1999-and-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2016\/08\/12\/3182\/","title":{"rendered":"QuickStats: Age-Adjusted Death Rates for Males Aged 15\u201344 Years, by the Five Leading Causes of Death \u2014 United States, 1999 and 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/65\/wr\/mm6531a8.htm\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/65\/wr\/figures\/m6531qsf.gif\" width=\"417\" height=\"263\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The age-adjusted death rate for males aged 15\u201344 years was 10% lower in 2014 (156.6 per 100,000 population) than in 1999 (174.1).<\/p>\n<p>Among the five leading causes of death, the age-adjusted rates for three were lower in 2014 than in 1999: cancer (from 17.1 to 12.8; 25% decline), heart disease (20.1 to 17.0; 15% decline), and homicide (15.7 to 13.8; 12% decline).<\/p>\n<p>The age-adjusted death rates for two of the five causes were higher in 2014 than in 1999: suicide (20.1 to 22.5; 12% increase), and unintentional injuries (from 48.7 to 51.0; 5% increase).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/65\/wr\/mm6531a8.htm\">http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/65\/wr\/mm6531a8.htm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The age-adjusted death rate for males aged 15\u201344 years was 10% lower in 2014 (156.6 per 100,000 population) than in 1999 (174.1). Among the five leading causes of death, the age-adjusted rates for three were lower in 2014 than in 1999: cancer (from 17.1 to 12.8; 25% decline), heart disease (20.1 to 17.0; 15% decline),<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10559,49481,62348,53752,59554],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3182"}],"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=3182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3182\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}