{"id":7456,"date":"2023-09-22T10:30:50","date_gmt":"2023-09-22T10:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/?p=7456"},"modified":"2023-09-22T18:54:54","modified_gmt":"2023-09-22T18:54:54","slug":"quickstats-sepsis-related-death-rates%e2%80%a0-among-persons-aged-%e2%89%a565-years-by-age-group-and-sex-national-vital-statistics-system-united-states-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2023\/09\/22\/7456\/","title":{"rendered":"QuickStats: Sepsis-Related Death Rates Among Persons Aged \u226565 Years, by Age Group and Sex \u2014 National Vital Statistics System, United States, 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/72\/wr\/mm7238a5.htm\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone \" src=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/72\/wr\/figures\/mm7238a5-F.gif?_=11729\" width=\"631\" height=\"394\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In 2021, the sepsis-related death rate among persons aged \u226565 years was 330.9 deaths per 100,000 population; the rate among men (371.7) was higher than that among women (297.4).<\/p>\n<p>Sepsis-related death rates among men were higher than those among women in each age group: 232.7 versus 173.0 (65\u201374 years), 477.3 versus 349.8 (75\u201384 years), and 1,037.8 versus 755.5 (\u226585 years).<\/p>\n<p>Sepsis-related death rates increased with age from 201.1 among persons aged 65\u201374 years to 858.3 among those aged \u226585 years. Sepsis-related death rates increased with age among both men and women.<\/p>\n<p><b>Source:<\/b>\u00a0National Center for Health Statistics, National Vital Statistics System, Mortality Data, 2021.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/wonder.cdc.gov\/mcd.html\">https:\/\/wonder.cdc.gov\/mcd.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/72\/wr\/mm7238a5.htm\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/72\/wr\/mm7238a5.htm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2021, the sepsis-related death rate among persons aged \u226565 years was 330.9 deaths per 100,000 population; the rate among men (371.7) was higher than that among women (297.4). Sepsis-related death rates among men were higher than those among women in each age group: 232.7 versus 173.0 (65\u201374 years), 477.3 versus 349.8 (75\u201384 years), and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":277,"featured_media":7457,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49481,63673,47317,53752,63747,53751],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7456"}],"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\/277"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7456"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7462,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7456\/revisions\/7462"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}