{"id":3843,"date":"2017-07-18T16:05:34","date_gmt":"2017-07-18T20:05:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nchstats.com\/?p=3843"},"modified":"2017-07-18T16:05:34","modified_gmt":"2017-07-18T20:05:34","slug":"quickstats-age-adjusted-alzheimers-disease-death-rates%e2%80%a0-among-persons-aged-65-years-or-older-by-state-united-states-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2017\/07\/18\/3843\/","title":{"rendered":"QuickStats: Age-Adjusted Alzheimer\u2019s Disease Death Rates\u2020 Among Persons Aged 65 Years or Older, by State \u2014 United States, 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/66\/wr\/mm6627a6.htm?s_cid=mm6627a6_e\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone \" src=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/66\/wr\/figures\/m6627qsf.gif\" width=\"435\" height=\"463\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In 2015, the age-adjusted Alzheimer\u2019s disease death rate among persons aged 65 years or older in the United States was 231.0 per 100,000 population.<\/p>\n<p>The five states with the highest age-adjusted death rates for Alzheimer\u2019s disease were South Carolina (362.8), Washington (349.6), Mississippi (346.5), Tennessee (340.8), and Louisiana (333.6).<\/p>\n<p>New York had the lowest rate (99.0), followed by Maryland (128.2), Alaska (131.7), Connecticut (149.3), and the District of Columbia (152.2).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/66\/wr\/mm6627a6.htm\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/66\/wr\/mm6627a6.htm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2015, the age-adjusted Alzheimer\u2019s disease death rate among persons aged 65 years or older in the United States was 231.0 per 100,000 population. The five states with the highest age-adjusted death rates for Alzheimer\u2019s disease were South Carolina (362.8), Washington (349.6), Mississippi (346.5), Tennessee (340.8), and Louisiana (333.6). New York had the lowest rate<\/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\/3843"}],"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=3843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3843\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}