{"id":6488,"date":"2022-06-17T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-17T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nchstats.com\/?p=6488"},"modified":"2022-06-17T11:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-06-17T15:00:00","slug":"quickstats-percentage-distribution-of-heat-related-deaths-by-age-group-national-vital-statistics-system-united-states-2018-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2022\/06\/17\/6488\/","title":{"rendered":"QuickStats:\u00a0Percentage Distribution of Heat-Related Deaths by Age Group \u2014 National Vital Statistics System, United States, 2018\u20132020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wwwdev.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/71\/wr\/figures\/mm7124a6-F.gif?_=92116\" alt=\"\" width=\"427\" height=\"211\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>During 2018\u20132020, a total of 3,066 heat-related deaths occurred. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The highest percentage of heat-related deaths occurred among persons aged 55\u201364 years (19%), and the lowest percentage occurred among those aged 5\u201314 years (1%). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Among those aged 5\u201314 through aged 55\u201364 years, the percentage of heat-related deaths increased with age, then decreased through those aged \u226585 years (7%). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Approximately 2% of heat-related deaths occurred among those aged &lt;1 year and 4% among those aged 1\u20134 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>&nbsp;National Vital Statistics System, Multiple Cause-of-Death Data, 2018\u20132020.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/wonder.cdc.gov\/mcd.html\">https:\/\/wonder.cdc.gov\/mcd.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/71\/wr\/mm7124a6.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/71\/wr\/mm7124a6.htm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During 2018\u20132020, a total of 3,066 heat-related deaths occurred. The highest percentage of heat-related deaths occurred among persons aged 55\u201364 years (19%), and the lowest percentage occurred among those aged 5\u201314 years (1%). Among those aged 5\u201314 through aged 55\u201364 years, the percentage of heat-related deaths increased with age, then decreased through those aged \u226585<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47317,53752,53751],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6488"}],"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=6488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6488\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}