Multiple Causes of Death in Old Age: Aging Trends: No. 9

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• Personal Author:
  Gorina, Yelena ; Lentzner, Harold R.
• Corporate Authors:
  National Center for Health Statistics (U.S.)
• Description:
  What is known about the nature of fatal diseases and injuries is based largely upon the tradition of identifying a single condition present at death as the underlying cause. As stated on the U .S. Standard ertificate of Death, the underlying cause is considered to be the disease or injury that initiated events resulting in death (http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/dvs/DEATHn-03final-ACC.pdf).
  
  by Yelena Gorina and Harold Lentzner.
  
  
• Subjects:
  Aged Mortality
• Series:
  Aging Trends
• Pubmed ID:
  19174856
• Document Type:
  Journal Issue
• Genre:
  Statistics
• Place as Subject:
  United States
• Pages in Document:
  electronic resource; remote; 9 p. : digital, PDF file
• Issue:
  9
• Collection(s):
  National Center for Health Statistics
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:c9fbac59be075943b8e9ce810edfecf8646cafe03cc0b30487ef93555bb53b1075b8e188faf90a9cbf3330f11e366a3f8543ddae694155e7b71cd481a2f5ca9c
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/5768/cdc_5768_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 6.13 MB ]