{"id":6333,"date":"2022-02-18T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-18T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nchstats.com\/?p=6333"},"modified":"2022-02-18T11:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-02-18T16:00:00","slug":"quickstats-death-rates-attributed-to-excessive-cold-or-hypothermia-by-urbanization-level-and-sex-national-vital-statistics-system-2018-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2022\/02\/18\/6333\/","title":{"rendered":"QuickStats: Death Rates Attributed to Excessive Cold or Hypothermia,\u00a0by Urbanization Level\u00a0and Sex \u2014 National Vital Statistics System, 2018\u20132020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/71\/wr\/figures\/mm7107a6-F.gif?_=15920\" alt=\"\" width=\"481\" height=\"339\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>During 2018\u20132020, death rates attributed to excessive cold or hypothermia were generally higher in more rural areas. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Among females, the death rate increased from 0.11 per 100,000 for those residing in large central metro areas, to 0.40 for those in noncore (rural) areas. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Among males, the death rates were lowest for those residing in large central metro areas (0.29) and large fringe metro areas (0.24), and highest in noncore (rural) areas (0.93). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Males had higher death rates than females for each corresponding urbanization level.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0National Center for Health Statistics, National Vital Statistics System, Mortality Data, 2018-2020.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/nvss\/deaths.htm\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/nvss\/deaths.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/71\/wr\/mm7107a6.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/71\/wr\/mm7107a6.htm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During 2018\u20132020, death rates attributed to excessive cold or hypothermia were generally higher in more rural areas. Among females, the death rate increased from 0.11 per 100,000 for those residing in large central metro areas, to 0.40 for those in noncore (rural) areas. Among males, the death rates were lowest for those residing in large<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49481,47317,53752,57495,63801,53751],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6333"}],"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=6333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6333\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}