{"id":3428,"date":"2017-01-31T15:52:25","date_gmt":"2017-01-31T20:52:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nchstats.com\/?p=3428"},"modified":"2017-01-31T15:52:25","modified_gmt":"2017-01-31T20:52:25","slug":"quickstats-prevalence-of-edentualism-in-adults-aged-65-years-or-older-by-age-group-and-racehispanic-origin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2017\/01\/31\/3428\/","title":{"rendered":"QuickStats: Prevalence of Edentualism in Adults Aged 65 Years or Older, by Age Group and Race\/Hispanic Origin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/66\/wr\/mm6603a12.htm?s_cid=mm6603a12_e\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone \" src=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/66\/wr\/figures\/m66503qsf.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"422\" height=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>During 2011\u20132014, 17.6% of adults aged 65 years or older were edentulous or had lost all their natural, permanent teeth.<\/p>\n<p>Adults aged 75 years or older (23%) were more likely to be edentulous compared with adults aged 65\u201374 years (13.9%).<\/p>\n<p>Non-Hispanic black adults aged 65 years or older\u00a0were more likely to be edentulous (27%) compared with non-Hispanic white (16.2%), non-Hispanic Asian (18.0%), and Hispanic adults (16.4%) aged 65 years or older.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/66\/wr\/mm6603a12.htm\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/66\/wr\/mm6603a12.htm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During 2011\u20132014, 17.6% of adults aged 65 years or older were edentulous or had lost all their natural, permanent teeth. Adults aged 75 years or older (23%) were more likely to be edentulous compared with adults aged 65\u201374 years (13.9%). Non-Hispanic black adults aged 65 years or older\u00a0were more likely to be edentulous (27%) compared<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53752],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3428"}],"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=3428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3428\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}