LCODall
leading causes of death, top 10 causes of death, top ten causes of death
LCODall.Count10
Leading Causes of Death
Deaths due to underlying causes of death eligible to be ranked as leading causes of death based on National Center for Health Statistics standards
Number of deaths due to a particular underlying cause
Percent: Total number of deaths due to all causes;
Rate: Number of persons in the population
07/11/2023
Analysis of mortality by cause is essential for the development of prevention strategies.
Heart disease remained the leading cause of death in New Jersey and the US in 2021. COVID-19 dropped to third and cancer rose back to second, where it was ranked before the pandemic. These three causes together accounted for half of deaths in the US and in New Jersey.
Unintentional injury, stroke, chronic lower respiratory diseases (CLRD), Alzheimer's disease, diabetes, septicemia, and kidney disease rounded out the remainder of the ten leading causes of death for New Jersey.
For each year of 2009-2014, the leading causes of death had been, in order, heart disease, cancer, stroke, CLRD, unintentional injury, diabetes, Alzheimer's disease, septicemia, kidney disease, and influenza/pneumonia. In 2015, fueled by the opioid overdose epidemic, unintentional injury replaced CLRD as the fourth leading cause of death. Alzheimer's disease and septicemia overtook diabetes in positions 6 through 8. In 2016, unintentional injury replaced stroke as the third leading cause of death and diabetes switched places with septicemia to become the seventh leading cause of death. In 2018, diabetes switched places with septicemia again. The ten leading causes of death in New Jersey remained the same in 2019 as in 2018.
[https://www-doh.state.nj.us/doh-shad/view/sharedstatic/LCODtable.pdf Table of leading causes of death for each year, 2000-2021]
Chronic liver disease and cirrhosis was the ninth leading cause of death in the US in 2021, but was 12th in New Jersey. New Jersey's ninth leading cause of death, septicemia, was 14th in the US in 2021. The other leading causes of death are in the Top 10 in both New Jersey and the US.
The age-adjusted death rates in 2021 for New Jersey's ten leading causes of death were lower than those of the US for each cause except septicemia and kidney disease.
U.S. Statistics, Data, and Related Documentation are available from the CDC's National Center for Health Statistics on these websites:
*National Vital Statistics System: [http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss.htm]
*Mortality Data: [http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/deaths.htm]
*Datasets and Related Documentation for Mortality Data: [http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/mortality_methods.htm]
*Instruction Manuals: [http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/instruction_manuals.htm]
Additional NJ COVID-19 Mortality Data: [https://www.nj.gov/health/chs/covid/index.shtml]
CHS
mbaron
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07/11/2023
MLB - Need a one-pager where people can see the current Top 10. 6/30/14
Updated to 2011 - MLB 9/22/14
added county view and more text 3/19/15
Added reference to "sepsis" per Noreen D'Angelo's request 6/10/15
2012 added 10/7/15 MLB, final 2013 added 5/3/16
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Status changed by: mbaron
07/11/2023
HealthStatus
Health Status Outcomes
There are also indicator profiles for leading causes of death by age, race/ethnicity, and gender. These are accessible on the [https://www-doh.state.nj.us/doh-shad/topic/Mortality.html Mortality and Leading Causes of Death] page.
AlzDeath
Deaths due to Alzheimer's Disease
AlzDeath.Trend
CancerDeath
Deaths due to Cancer
CancerDeath.Trend
CLRDDeath
Deaths due to Chronic Lower Respiratory Diseases
CLRDDeath.Trend
COVIDDeath
Deaths due to COVID-19
COVIDDeath.RE
DiabetesDeath
Deaths due to Diabetes
DiabetesDeath.Trend
HeartDisDeath
Deaths due to Heart Disease
HeartDisDeath.Trend
KidneyDisDeath
Deaths due to Kidney Disease
KidneyDisDeath.Trend
SepticemiaDeath
Deaths due to Septicemia
SepticemiaDeath.Trend
StrokeDeath
Deaths due to Stroke
StrokeDeath.Trend
UnintInjDeath
Deaths due to Unintentional Injury
UnintInjDeath.Trend
LCODall.Count10
Leading Causes of Death:
Counts and Percentages, New Jersey,
2021
Percent of Deaths
LCODall.AArate10
Leading Causes of Death:
Age-Adjusted Rates, New Jersey and the U.S.,
2021
Deaths per 100,000 Standardized Population