East/west divide on US cold-related death statistics

[Ronan Kelly]

East/west divide on US cold-related death statistics

Last updated: Saturday 14 March 2015 at 12am PST
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Drawing a line for the West to include the states Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington and Wyoming, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) data indicate that, for nonmetropolitan areas:

• The West has 20.5 deaths per million population
• Other regions of the US have 4.5 to 7.8 deaths per million.

The data for the analysis come from the US National Vital Statistics System, and compared with those rural figures, "cold deaths" are lower in metropolitan areas across the US, ranging from 2.9 to 5.0 per million population.
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