{"id":5925,"date":"2021-06-25T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-25T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nchstats.com\/?p=5925"},"modified":"2021-06-25T11:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-06-25T15:00:00","slug":"quickstats-percentage-of-adults-who-did-not-get-needed-dental-care-because-of-cost-in-the-past-12-months-by-age-group-and-sex-national-health-interview-survey-united-states-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2021\/06\/25\/5925\/","title":{"rendered":"QuickStats: Percentage of Adults Who Did Not Get Needed Dental Care Because of Cost in the Past 12 Months, by Age Group and Sex \u2014 National Health Interview Survey, United States, 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/70\/wr\/figures\/mm7025a5-F.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"406\" height=\"264\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2019, among adults aged \u226518 years, women (19.2%) were more likely than men (15.6%) not to get needed dental care because of cost in the past 12 months. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The difference by sex was seen for all age groups: 17.7% versus 13.1% among adults aged 18-29 years, 21.5% versus 16.7% among those aged 30\u201344 years, 21.5% versus 18.7% among those aged 45\u201364 years, and 14.4% versus 11.9% among those aged \u226565 years. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For both men and women, the percentages were highest among those aged 30\u201344 and 45\u201364 years. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For men, the percentages were lowest among those aged 18\u201329 years and \u226565 years; for women, the percentage was lowest among those aged \u226565 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>&nbsp;National Center for Health Statistics; National Health Interview Survey, 2019.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/nhis.htm\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/nhis.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/70\/wr\/mm7025a5.htm\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/70\/wr\/mm7025a5.htm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2019, among adults aged \u226518 years, women (19.2%) were more likely than men (15.6%) not to get needed dental care because of cost in the past 12 months. The difference by sex was seen for all age groups: 17.7% versus 13.1% among adults aged 18-29 years, 21.5% versus 16.7% among those aged 30\u201344 years,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62269,53746,53752],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5925"}],"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=5925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5925\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}