{"id":7027,"date":"2020-11-06T10:30:11","date_gmt":"2020-11-06T15:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nchstats.com\/?p=5297"},"modified":"2020-11-06T10:30:11","modified_gmt":"2020-11-06T15:30:11","slug":"quickstats-age-adjusted-death-rates-for-alzheimer-disease-among-adults-aged-65-years-or-older-by-sex-and-race-hispanic-origin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2020\/11\/06\/7027\/","title":{"rendered":"QuickStats: Age-Adjusted Death Rates for Alzheimer Disease Among Adults Aged 65 Years or Older, by Sex and Race\/Hispanic Origin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/69\/wr\/mm6944a7.htm\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone \" src=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/69\/wr\/figures\/mm6944a7-F.gif\" width=\"446\" height=\"292\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In 2018, the age-adjusted death rate for Alzheimer disease among adults aged 65 years or older was higher for women (267.9 deaths per 100,000) than for men (191.9).<\/p>\n<p>Among men, non-Hispanic White men had the highest death rate (201.7) compared with non-Hispanic Black (176.8) and Hispanic (168.4) men.<\/p>\n<p>Among women, non-Hispanic White women (285.1) had the highest death rate, followed by non-Hispanic Black (234.7) and Hispanic (218.8) women.<\/p>\n<p>Compared with men, women had higher age-adjusted death rates from Alzheimer disease in all three race and Hispanic-origin groups.<\/p>\n<p><b>Source:<\/b>\u00a0National Center for Health Statistics, National Vital Statistics System, Mortality Data.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/deaths.htm\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/deaths.htm<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/69\/wr\/mm6944a7.htm\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/69\/wr\/mm6944a7.htm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2018, the age-adjusted death rate for Alzheimer disease among adults aged 65 years or older was higher for women (267.9 deaths per 100,000) than for men (191.9). Among men, non-Hispanic White men had the highest death rate (201.7) compared with non-Hispanic Black (176.8) and Hispanic (168.4) men. Among women, non-Hispanic White women (285.1) had<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62213,47317,53752,53751],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7027"}],"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=7027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7027\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}