{"id":941,"date":"2010-02-24T12:03:45","date_gmt":"2010-02-24T16:03:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nchspressroom.wordpress.com\/?p=941"},"modified":"2010-02-24T12:03:45","modified_gmt":"2010-02-24T16:03:45","slug":"will-anemia-kill-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2010\/02\/24\/941\/","title":{"rendered":"Will anemia kill you?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana\">Well, that depends of course &#8211; however, anemia <em>can<\/em> be deadly. In 2006, the latest data available, 3,996 deaths were attributed to anemia (that&#8217;s 1.3 per 100,000 population). In comparison, heart disease, the leading cause of death in the United States, accounted for 631,636 deaths in 2006, a rate of 200.2 per 100,000 population. However, the risk of death from anemia\u00a0appears to increase\u00a0with age. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/data\/nvsr\/nvsr57\/nvsr57_14.pdf\">data for 2006<\/a> illustrates this:<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Under 1 year &#8211; 11 deaths<br \/>\n1 to 4 years &#8211; 26 deaths<br \/>\n5 to 14 years &#8211; 34 deaths<br \/>\n15 to 24 years &#8211; 93 deaths<br \/>\n25 to 34 years &#8211; 141 deaths<br \/>\n35 to 44 years &#8211; 192 deaths<br \/>\n45 to 54 years &#8211; 232 deaths<br \/>\n55 to 64 years &#8211; 304 deaths<br \/>\n65 to 74 years &#8211; 401 deaths<br \/>\n75 to 84 years &#8211; 975 deaths<br \/>\n85 years and over &#8211; 1,587 deaths<\/p>\n<p><strong>Anemia deaths by age in the United States, 2006<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nchspressroom.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/02\/anemia.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-942\" title=\"Anemia deaths by age in the United States, 2006\" src=\"http:\/\/nchspressroom.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/02\/anemia.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"450\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana\">For more\u00a0data on anemia, please visit <a title=\"Link to NCHS page on anemia\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/fastats\/anemia.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/fastats\/anemia.htm<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, that depends of course &#8211; however, anemia can be deadly. In 2006, the latest data available, 3,996 deaths were attributed to anemia (that&#8217;s 1.3 per 100,000 population). In comparison, heart disease, the leading cause of death in the United States, accounted for 631,636 deaths in 2006, a rate of 200.2 per 100,000 population. However,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62218,49481,62370,53751],"tags":[63912,47317],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941"}],"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=941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}