{"id":7031,"date":"2020-11-13T11:00:19","date_gmt":"2020-11-13T16:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nchstats.com\/?p=5316"},"modified":"2020-11-13T11:00:19","modified_gmt":"2020-11-13T16:00:19","slug":"quickstats-death-rates-from-unintentional-falls-among-persons-aged-%e2%89%a565-years-by-age-group-national-vital-statistics-system-united-states-1999-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2020\/11\/13\/7031\/","title":{"rendered":"QuickStats: Death Rates from Unintentional Falls Among Persons Aged \u226565 Years, by Age Group \u2014 National Vital Statistics System, United States, 1999\u20132018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/69\/wr\/mm6945a10.htm\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone \" src=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/69\/wr\/figures\/mm6945a10-F.gif\" width=\"449\" height=\"294\" \/><\/a>From 1999 to 2018, death rates from unintentional falls among persons aged \u226565 years increased among all age groups.<\/p>\n<p>The largest increase occurred among persons aged \u226585 years, from 110.2 per 100,000 in 1999 to 270.5 in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>For persons aged 75\u201384 years, the rate increased from 31.5 to 63.1, and among those aged 65\u201374 years, the rate increased from 9.0 to 16.8.<\/p>\n<p>Throughout the period, rates were highest among persons aged \u226585 years, followed by rates among persons aged 75\u201384 years, and were lowest among persons aged 65\u201374 years.<\/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\/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\/mm6945a10.htm\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/69\/wr\/mm6945a10.htm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From 1999 to 2018, death rates from unintentional falls among persons aged \u226565 years increased among all age groups. The largest increase occurred among persons aged \u226585 years, from 110.2 per 100,000 in 1999 to 270.5 in 2018. For persons aged 75\u201384 years, the rate increased from 31.5 to 63.1, and among those aged 65\u201374<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14337,30756,47317,53752,53751],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7031"}],"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=7031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7031\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}