Trends in premature mortality in the USA by sex, race, and ethnicity from 1999 to 2014: an analysis of death certificate data

The Lancet

Volumn 389, Issue 10073, 2017, Pages 1043-1054

  Shiels, Meredith S ^a   Chernyavskiy, Pavel ^a   Anderson, William F ^a   Best, Ana F ^a   Haozous, Emily A ^b   Hartge, Patricia ^a   Rosenberg, Philip S ^a   Thomas, David ^c   Freedman, Neal D ^a   de Gonzalez, Amy Berrington ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^c Natonal Institute on Drug Abuse   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENTAL DEATH; ADULT; ALASKA NATIVE; AMERICAN INDIAN; ARTICLE; ASIAN; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CANCER MORTALITY; CARDIOVASCULAR MORTALITY; CAUCASIAN; CAUSE OF DEATH; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CHRONIC LIVER DISEASE; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH CERTIFICATE; DIABETES MELLITUS; DRUG INTOXICATION; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; HEALTH DISPARITY; HEART DISEASE; HISPANIC; HOMICIDE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFLUENZA; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASM; MIDDLE AGED; NATIONAL HEALTH ORGANIZATION; NEPHRITIS; PACIFIC ISLANDER; PARASITOSIS; PNEUMONIA; PREMATURE MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE; SEPTICEMIA; SEX; SUICIDE; TREND STUDY; UNITED STATES; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ANCESTRY GROUP; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNOLOGY; SEX RATIO; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRENDS;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; DEATH CERTIFICATES; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY, PREMATURE; SEX DISTRIBUTION; UNITED STATES;

EID: 85010842286     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: 1474547X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(17)30187-3     Document Type: Article

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