{"id":6996,"date":"2020-08-21T13:31:09","date_gmt":"2020-08-21T17:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nchstats.com\/?p=5125"},"modified":"2020-08-21T13:31:09","modified_gmt":"2020-08-21T17:31:09","slug":"quickstats-death-rates-from-stroke-among-persons-aged-%e2%89%a565-years-by-sex-and-age-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2020\/08\/21\/6996\/","title":{"rendered":"QuickStats: Death Rates from Stroke Among Persons Aged \u226565 Years, by Sex and Age Group"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"order-4 w-100\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/69\/wr\/mm6933a5.htm\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone \" src=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/69\/wr\/figures\/mm6933a5-F.gif\" width=\"447\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In 2018, the death rate from stroke was 242.7 per 100,000 persons aged 65 years or older.<\/p>\n<p>Persons aged 85 years or older had the highest death rate from stroke (984.3), followed by those aged 75\u201384 years (256.0) and those aged 65\u201374 years (76.8).<\/p>\n<p>For both men and women, the death rates increased with age.\u00a0\u00a0The death rate for women (261.6) was higher than that for men (219.0) for persons aged 65 years or older, but men had higher stroke death rates for the 65\u201374 and 75\u201384 age groups.<\/p>\n<p>Women aged 85 years or older had higher death rates than did men in this age group.<\/p>\n<p><b>Source:<\/b>\u00a0National Vital Statistics System mortality data.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/nvss\/deaths.htm\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/nvss\/deaths.htm<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/69\/wr\/mm6933a5.htm\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/69\/wr\/mm6933a5.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"order-4\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2018, the death rate from stroke was 242.7 per 100,000 persons aged 65 years or older. Persons aged 85 years or older had the highest death rate from stroke (984.3), followed by those aged 75\u201384 years (256.0) and those aged 65\u201374 years (76.8). For both men and women, the death rates increased with age.\u00a0\u00a0The<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49481,47317,53752,53751],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6996"}],"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=6996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6996\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}