{"id":5550,"date":"2021-03-12T10:30:12","date_gmt":"2021-03-12T15:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nchstats.com\/?p=5550"},"modified":"2021-03-12T10:30:12","modified_gmt":"2021-03-12T15:30:12","slug":"quickstats-rates-of-firearm-related-deaths-among-persons-aged-15-years-or-older-by-selected-intent-and-age-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2021\/03\/12\/5550\/","title":{"rendered":"QuickStats: Rates of Firearm-Related Deaths Among Persons Aged 15 Years or Older, by Selected Intent and Age Group"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/70\/wr\/mm7010a5.htm\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone \" src=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/70\/wr\/figures\/mm7010a5-F_v2.gif\" width=\"446\" height=\"265\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Among persons aged 15 years or older, for all firearm-related deaths (all intents), rates were highest among those aged 15\u201324 years (17.4 per 100,000).<\/p>\n<p>For deaths involving firearm-related suicides, rates increased with age, from 6.6 among persons aged 15\u201324 years to 11.8 among those aged 65 years or older.<\/p>\n<p>A different pattern was found for firearm-related homicides, in which rates decreased with age, from 10.2 among those aged 15\u201324 years to 0.9 among those aged 65 years or older.<\/p>\n<p><b>Source:<\/b> National Center for Health Statistics, National Vital Statistics System, Mortality Data, 2019. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/nvss\/deaths.htm\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/nvss\/deaths.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/70\/wr\/mm7010a5.htm<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Among persons aged 15 years or older, for all firearm-related deaths (all intents), rates were highest among those aged 15\u201324 years (17.4 per 100,000). For deaths involving firearm-related suicides, rates increased with age, from 6.6 among persons aged 15\u201324 years to 11.8 among those aged 65 years or older. A different pattern was found for<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49481,47317,53752,53751],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5550"}],"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=5550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5550\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}