{"id":7015,"date":"2020-10-09T10:30:26","date_gmt":"2020-10-09T14:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nchstats.com\/?p=5216"},"modified":"2020-10-09T10:30:26","modified_gmt":"2020-10-09T14:30:26","slug":"quickstats-death-rates-from-influenza-and-pneumonia-among-persons-aged-65-years-or-older","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2020\/10\/09\/7015\/","title":{"rendered":"QuickStats: Death Rates from Influenza and Pneumonia Among Persons Aged 65 Years or Older"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/69\/wr\/mm6940a5.htm\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone \" src=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/69\/wr\/figures\/mm6940a5-F.gif\" width=\"444\" height=\"420\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In 2018, the death rate from influenza and pneumonia among persons aged 65 years or older was 93.2 deaths per 100,000 population.<\/p>\n<p>Death rates increased with age from 31.7 deaths per 100,000 population among adults aged 65\u201374 years, to 94.2 among adults aged 75\u201384 years, to 377.6 among those aged 85 years or older.<\/p>\n<p>Rates increased with age for both men and women, and in each age group the death rates were higher for men than for women.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> National 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\/mm6940a5.htm\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/69\/wr\/mm6940a5.htm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2018, the death rate from influenza and pneumonia among persons aged 65 years or older was 93.2 deaths per 100,000 population. Death rates increased with age from 31.7 deaths per 100,000 population among adults aged 65\u201374 years, to 94.2 among adults aged 75\u201384 years, to 377.6 among those aged 85 years or older. Rates<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49481,14337,47317,53752,53751],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7015"}],"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=7015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7015\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}