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• Source: Las Vegas Sun
• Date: July 01, 2007
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• Bylines: Marshall Allen , Alex Richards
• Topics: Death
• Data Types: Federal Data
• Description/Excerpt: Nevadans and Clark County residents die younger and at higher rates of suicide, substance abuse and certain chronic illnesses compared with the rates nationally and in other large counties. That is the conclusion of a Sun analysis of mortality data gathered by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The comprehensive CDC database includes the fate of every American - a detailed summary of every death certificate in the United States since 1959, documenting about 5,000 possible causes of death from rarities such as leprosy and yellow fever to mass killers such as heart disease. The Sun compared the death rates in Clark County and Nevada with the same rates nationwide - analyzing about 14.5 million deaths from 1999 to 2004, the most recent year for which data are available - to find ways in which death in Nevada differed from national patterns.
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