{"id":5353,"date":"2010-12-09T17:11:49","date_gmt":"2010-12-09T22:11:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/?p=5353"},"modified":"2011-07-19T17:44:40","modified_gmt":"2011-07-19T21:44:40","slug":"cdc-demotes-stroke-to-fourth-leading-cause-of-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/2010\/12\/09\/cdc-demotes-stroke-to-fourth-leading-cause-of-death\/","title":{"rendered":"CDC Demotes Stroke to Fourth Leading Cause of Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chronic lower respiratory disease (CLRD) has replaced stroke as the third leading cause of death in the United States, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/data\/nvsr\/nvsr59\/nvsr59_02.pdf\">preliminary 2008 statistics published by the CDC&#8217;s National Center for Health Statistics<\/a>. In 2008, there were 133,750 deaths from stroke compared to 141,075 deaths from CLRD. Although the stroke rate has been declining for many years, the dramatic increase in the rate of CLRD (a 7.8% increase from 2007 to 2008) was due in large part to a revision of the cause-of-death coding practices that added many cases of pneumonia to the CLRD category. The CDC said the final 2008 mortality report will include a detailed analysis of this issue.<\/p>\n<p>Here are the top 15 causes of death in the new list:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Diseases of heart<\/li>\n<li>Malignant neoplasms<\/li>\n<li>Chronic lower respiratory diseases<\/li>\n<li>Cerebrovascular diseases<\/li>\n<li>Accidents (unintentional injuries)<\/li>\n<li>Alzheimer&#8217;s disease<\/li>\n<li>Diabetes mellitus<\/li>\n<li>Influenza and pneumonia<\/li>\n<li>Nephritis, nephrotic syndrome, and nephrosis<\/li>\n<li>Septicemia<\/li>\n<li>Intentional self-harm (suicide)<\/li>\n<li>Chronic liver disease and cirrhosis<\/li>\n<li>Essential hypertension and hypertensive renal disease<\/li>\n<li>Parkinson&#8217;s disease<\/li>\n<li>Assault (homicide)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chronic lower respiratory disease (CLRD) has replaced stroke as the third leading cause of death in the United States, according to preliminary 2008 statistics published by the CDC&#8217;s National Center for Health Statistics. In 2008, there were 133,750 deaths from stroke compared to 141,075 deaths from CLRD. Although the stroke rate has been declining for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[616,615,253],"class_list":["post-5353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-cause-of-death","tag-statistics","tag-stroke"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5353\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}