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QuickStats: Percentage Change in Death Rates for Leading Causes
of Unintentional Injury, by Mechanism of Injury --- United States, 1999 to 2005
From 1999 to 2005, the age-adjusted unintentional injury death rate increased 10.5% overall, from 35.3
per 100,000 population to 39.0. The increase resulted primarily from a 79.6% increase in the death rate
for poisoning (including drug overdose) from 4.4 per 100,000 population to 7.9, and a 33.3% increase in
the death rate for falls from 4.8 per 100,000 population to 6.4.
SOURCE: National Vital Statistics System (NVSS), 1999--2005. NVSS injury mortality data are available
from CDC's Web-Based Injury Statistics Query and Reporting System (WISQARS) at
http://www.cdc.gov/ncipc/wisqars.
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