{"id":3524,"date":"2017-04-24T15:52:18","date_gmt":"2017-04-24T19:52:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nchstats.com\/?p=3524"},"modified":"2017-04-24T15:52:18","modified_gmt":"2017-04-24T19:52:18","slug":"quickstats-number-of-deaths-from-10-leading-causes-by-sex-national-vital-statistics-system-united-states-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2017\/04\/24\/3524\/","title":{"rendered":"QuickStats: Number of Deaths from 10 Leading Causes by Sex \u2014 National Vital Statistics System, United States, 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/66\/wr\/mm6615a8.htm\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone \" src=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/66\/wr\/figures\/m6615qsf.gif\" width=\"452\" height=\"251\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In 2015, a total of 1,339,226 deaths among females and 1,373,404 deaths among males occurred.<\/p>\n<p>Heart disease and cancer were the top two causes of death for both females and males; other leading causes varied in rank by sex.<\/p>\n<p>The 10 leading causes of death accounted for approximately three-quarters of all deaths.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/66\/wr\/mm6615a8.htm\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/66\/wr\/mm6615a8.htm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2015, a total of 1,339,226 deaths among females and 1,373,404 deaths among males occurred. Heart disease and cancer were the top two causes of death for both females and males; other leading causes varied in rank by sex. The 10 leading causes of death accounted for approximately three-quarters of all deaths. Source:\u00a0https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/66\/wr\/mm6615a8.htm<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62213,10559,59415,49481,29100,28877,91,63651,20556,47317,53752,5748],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3524"}],"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=3524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3524\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}