{"id":5809,"date":"2021-05-21T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-21T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nchstats.com\/?p=5809"},"modified":"2021-05-21T11:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-05-21T15:00:00","slug":"quickstats-age-adjusted-death-rates-for-four-selected-mechanisms-of-injury-national-vital-statistics-system-united-states-1979-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2021\/05\/21\/5809\/","title":{"rendered":"QuickStats: Age-Adjusted Death Rates for Four Selected Mechanisms of Injury \u2014 National Vital Statistics System, United States, 1979\u20132019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/70\/wr\/mm7020a4.htm\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone \" src=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/70\/wr\/figures\/mm7020a4-F.gif\" width=\"402\" height=\"211\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In 1979, of the four mechanisms of injury, age-adjusted mortality rates were highest for motor vehicle traffic deaths and lowest for drug poisoning deaths.<\/p>\n<p>From 1979 to 2019, the age-adjusted rate of motor vehicle traffic deaths decreased from 22.1 per 100,000 to 11.1, and the rate of firearm-related deaths decreased from 14.7 to 11.9.<\/p>\n<p>During the same period, the rate of drug poisoning (overdose) deaths increased from 3.0 to 21.6, and the rate of fall-related deaths increased from 6.2 to 10.1. In 2019, the rates were highest for drug poisoning deaths and lowest for fall-related deaths.<\/p>\n<p><b>Source:<\/b>\u00a0National Vital Statistics System compressed mortality file, underlying cause of death.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/wonder.cdc.gov\/mortsql.html\">https:\/\/wonder.cdc.gov\/mortsql.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/70\/wr\/mm7020a4.htm\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/70\/wr\/mm7020a4.htm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1979, of the four mechanisms of injury, age-adjusted mortality rates were highest for motor vehicle traffic deaths and lowest for drug poisoning deaths. From 1979 to 2019, the age-adjusted rate of motor vehicle traffic deaths decreased from 22.1 per 100,000 to 11.1, and the rate of firearm-related deaths decreased from 14.7 to 11.9. During<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49481,53755,30756,62304,20939,63680,47317,53751],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5809"}],"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=5809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5809\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}