{"id":7029,"date":"2020-11-06T09:32:56","date_gmt":"2020-11-06T14:32:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nchstats.com\/?p=5306"},"modified":"2020-11-06T09:32:56","modified_gmt":"2020-11-06T14:32:56","slug":"death-rates-in-the-u-s-from-selected-leading-causes-of-death-1960-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2020\/11\/06\/7029\/","title":{"rendered":"Death Rates in the U.S. from Selected Leading Causes of Death, 1960-2016"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Mortality from leading causes of death in the United States have shown distinct patterns over the years, with shifts in trends depending heavily on which years are being examined.\u00a0 Using a slightly different approach, crude death rates for five selected leading causes of deaths were examined for the past 15 election years, 1960 thru 2016 [provisional data for 2020 are only available for the first quarter (January thru March) of this year].\u00a0 This short analysis, using mortality data from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/data\/dvs\/lead1900_98.pdf\">National Vital Statistics System<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/wonder.cdc.gov\">WONDER<\/a> database, produced some interesting patterns.\u00a0 Death rates for <strong>heart disease<\/strong>, the leading cause of death in the United States, has declined in every election year since 1960 except for three years \u2013 1968, 1980 and 2016.\u00a0 The death rate from <strong>cancer<\/strong>, the second leading cause of death in the United States, increased for eight straight election years between 1960 and 1992, but has declined in every election year since then.\u00a0 Death rates from <strong>stroke<\/strong> have followed a similar pattern as heart disease, declining every in election year since 1960 except for three years \u2013 1968, 1996 and 2016.\u00a0 Death rates from <strong>diabetes<\/strong> declined in four straight election years from 1972 to 1984, but have increased in every election year since then except for one (2008). \u00a0Finally, death rates from <strong>accidents\/unintentional injuries<\/strong> increased in each election year from 1960 to 1968, then declined for two straight election years (1972 and 1976), and have increased in all but three election years since then (1984, 1992, and 2000).\u00a0 More significantly, the death rate from accidents\/unintentional injuries has been increasing rapidly during this recent period, and was higher in 2016 than in any election year since 1972.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Sources:  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/data\/dvs\/lead1900_98.pdf\">Leading Causes of Death, 1900-1998<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/wonder.cdc.gov\/\">WONDER, 1999-2018<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mortality from leading causes of death in the United States have shown distinct patterns over the years, with shifts in trends depending heavily on which years are being examined.\u00a0 Using a slightly different approach, crude death rates for five selected leading causes of deaths were examined for the past 15 election years, 1960 thru 2016<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7029"}],"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=7029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7029\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}