{"id":4772,"date":"2020-01-31T11:00:21","date_gmt":"2020-01-31T16:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nchstats.com\/?p=4772"},"modified":"2020-01-31T11:00:21","modified_gmt":"2020-01-31T16:00:21","slug":"quickstats-percentage-of-persons-who-had-a-stomach-or-intestinal-illness-that-started-in-the-past-2-weeks-by-sex-and-age-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2020\/01\/31\/4772\/","title":{"rendered":"QuickStats: Percentage of Persons Who Had a Stomach or Intestinal Illness That Started in the Past 2 Weeks by Sex and Age Group"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/69\/wr\/mm6904a8.htm\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone \" src=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/69\/wr\/figures\/mm6904a8-F.gif\" width=\"448\" height=\"302\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In 2018, 4.7% of males and 5.3% of females had a stomach illness that started in the past 2 weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Among children and adolescents aged 0\u201317 years, no difference was observed in the percentage of males and females who had a stomach illness that started in the past 2 weeks. However, among adults, women were more likely to have had a stomach illness than men.<\/p>\n<p>This held for those aged 18\u201364 years (5.3% of women compared with 4.5% of men) and those aged 65 years or older (5.8% versus 4.2%).<\/p>\n<p><b>Source:<\/b> National Health Interview Survey, 2018 data. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/nhis.htm\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/nhis.htm<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/69\/wr\/mm6904a8.htm\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/69\/wr\/mm6904a8.htm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2018, 4.7% of males and 5.3% of females had a stomach illness that started in the past 2 weeks. Among children and adolescents aged 0\u201317 years, no difference was observed in the percentage of males and females who had a stomach illness that started in the past 2 weeks. However, among adults, women were<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53746,53752],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4772"}],"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=4772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4772\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}