Deaths from unintentional injury among adults aged 65 and over: United States, 2000-2013 - PubMed (original) (raw)
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Deaths from unintentional injury among adults aged 65 and over: United States, 2000-2013
Ellen Kramarow et al. NCHS Data Brief. 2015 May.
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Abstract
In 2012-2013, 55% of all unintentional injury deaths among adults aged 65 and over were due to falls. From 2000 through 2013, the age-adjusted fall injury death rate among adults aged 65 and over nearly doubled from 29.6 per 100,000 to 56.7 per 100,000. In 2012-2013, the death rate due to suffocation was more than 8 times higher among adults aged 85 and over (26.5 per 100,000) compared with adults aged 65-74 (3.1 per 100,000). Among adults aged 65 and over, the death rate due to fire was more than twice as high for non-Hispanic black adults as for non-Hispanic white and Hispanic adults. The death rate from motor vehicle traffic crashes among adults aged 65 and over was 1.7 times higher in nonmetropolitan areas compared with metropolitan areas.
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