{"id":7113,"date":"2007-07-06T16:14:59","date_gmt":"2007-07-06T16:14:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nchspressroom.wordpress.com\/2007\/07\/06\/historical-leading-causes-of-death\/"},"modified":"2007-07-06T16:14:59","modified_gmt":"2007-07-06T16:14:59","slug":"historical-leading-causes-of-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2007\/07\/06\/7113\/","title":{"rendered":"Historical Leading Causes of Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re all fairly familiar with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/fastats\/lcod.htm\">leading causes of death <\/a>today: heart disease, cancer, chronic lower respiratory diseases, accidents, diabetes, Alzheimer&#8217;s disease, influenza\/Pneumonia, kidney disease, and septicemia. (As an aside, you can querythe leading causes of death in detail from 1981 to present at <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/webapp.cdc.gov\/sasweb\/ncipc\/leadcaus.html\" rel=\"noopener\">CDC&#8217;s WONDER database<\/a>.) But what were the leading causes of death in the last century?<\/p>\n<p>In 1950 we find the top 10 causes of death were, in order, heart disease, cancer, stroke, accidents, infant death, influenza\/pneumonia, tuberculosis, arteriosclerosis, kidney disease, and diabetes. Skipping farther back to 1920 the leading causes are influenza\/pneumonia, heart disease, tuberculosis, stroke, kidney disease, cancer, accidents, diarrhea\/enteritis, premature birth, and childbirth related conditions.<\/p>\n<p>The earliest data, that from 1900, give influenza\/pneumonia, tuberculosis, diarrhea\/enteritis, heart disease, stroke, kidney disease, accidents, cancer, senility, and diphtheria as the leading causes of death.<\/p>\n<p>The leading causes of death from 1900 through 1998 is <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/data\/dvs\/lead1900_98.pdf\" rel=\"noopener\">located here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re all fairly familiar with the leading causes of death today: heart disease, cancer, chronic lower respiratory diseases, accidents, diabetes, Alzheimer&#8217;s disease, influenza\/Pneumonia, kidney disease, and septicemia. (As an aside, you can querythe leading causes of death in detail from 1981 to present at CDC&#8217;s WONDER database.) But what were the leading causes of death<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49481,20556,63685,150,53751],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7113"}],"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=7113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}