{"id":8528,"date":"2011-06-02T15:48:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-02T19:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/?p=8528"},"modified":"2011-07-19T17:44:23","modified_gmt":"2011-07-19T21:44:23","slug":"cdc-death-rates-for-heart-disease-and-cancer-converge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/2011\/06\/02\/cdc-death-rates-for-heart-disease-and-cancer-converge\/","title":{"rendered":"CDC: Death Rates for Heart Disease and Cancer Converge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/preview\/mmwrhtml\/mm6021a6.htm?s_cid=mm6021a6_e&amp;source=govdelivery\">Preliminary  data released by the CDC<\/a> shows that the age-adjusted death rates  for heart disease and cancer are converging dramatically. From 1999  through 2009, the death rates for heart disease and cancer declined by 30.8% and 11.9%, respectively. In 1999, the risk for death from heart  disease was 31.9% higher than from cancer. By 2009, the difference had  shrunk to only 3.6%. Here&#8217;s the CDC chart:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2011\/06\/Heart-Cancer-Deaths.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8534\" title=\"Heart-Cancer-Deaths\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2011\/06\/Heart-Cancer-Deaths.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"510\" height=\"292\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>(Click to enlarge)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Preliminary data released by the CDC shows that the age-adjusted death rates for heart disease and cancer are converging dramatically. From 1999 through 2009, the death rates for heart disease and cancer declined by 30.8% and 11.9%, respectively. In 1999, the risk for death from heart disease was 31.9% higher than from cancer. By 2009, [&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":[863,701,864,862,801],"class_list":["post-8528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-cancer-deaths","tag-cdc","tag-heart-disease-deaths","tag-mmwr","tag-mortality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8528","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=8528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8528\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}