{"id":6992,"date":"2020-07-31T11:30:05","date_gmt":"2020-07-31T15:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nchstats.com\/?p=5107"},"modified":"2020-07-31T11:30:05","modified_gmt":"2020-07-31T15:30:05","slug":"quickstats-number-of-natural-heat-related-deaths-by-sex-and-age-group-national-vital-statistics-system-united-states-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2020\/07\/31\/6992\/","title":{"rendered":"QuickStats: Number of Natural Heat-Related Deaths by Sex and Age Group \u2014 National Vital Statistics System, United States, 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/69\/wr\/mm6930a6.htm\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone \" src=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/69\/wr\/figures\/mm6930a6-F.gif\" width=\"449\" height=\"208\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In 2018, natural heat exposure was associated with 726 deaths among males and 282 deaths among females.<\/p>\n<p>Among males, the highest number of heat-related deaths was for those aged 55\u201364 years (150) and among females for those aged 65\u201374 years (58).<\/p>\n<p>The lowest numbers were for males (four) and females (two) aged 5\u201314 years. Approximately 72% of heat-related deaths were among males.<\/p>\n<p><b>Source:<\/b> National Vital Statistics System. Multiple cause of death data, 1999\u20132018. <a href=\"https:\/\/wonder.cdc.gov\/mcd.html\">https:\/\/wonder.cdc.gov\/mcd.html<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/69\/wr\/mm6930a6.htm\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/69\/wr\/mm6930a6.htm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2018, natural heat exposure was associated with 726 deaths among males and 282 deaths among females. Among males, the highest number of heat-related deaths was for those aged 55\u201364 years (150) and among females for those aged 65\u201374 years (58). The lowest numbers were for males (four) and females (two) aged 5\u201314 years. Approximately<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49481,47317,53751],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6992"}],"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=6992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6992\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}