Underlying and contributing causes of mortality from CDC WONDER-Insights for researchers.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The multiple cause of death files available through the Center for Disease Control and Prevention Wide-ranging Online Data for Epidemiologic Research (CDC WONDER) present underlying and contributing causes of mortality. We sought to evaluate potential differences in mortality reporting that may occur based on utilization of only underlying versus utilization of both underlying and contributing cause of mortality.

Methods

All-cause and top 5 underlying causes of deaths in individuals ≥25 years of age from 2011 to 2019 occurring within United States were extracted from CDC WONDER. Deaths for the top 5 underlying causes of death as underlying and as underlying or contributing causes were extracted. For each cause, we calculated the percentage of the deaths that would

SUBMITTER: Minhas AMK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11782113 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature