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What's going to kill you? [US, 2018-2023] (lemmy.world)
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Not beautiful. More "interesting data set." Source: https://wonder.cdc.gov/ucd-icd10-expanded.html

edited to correct off-by-one error in 5-14 year old column

Upper graph showing percentage of deaths in 10-year age brackets. Motor vehicle and firearm accidents peak at 14-25 year-old and decline exponentially. Poisoning death proportion peaks with 25-34 year olds. Cancer death percentage rises continuously to 65-74 year olds. Heart disease death proportion peaks among 85+ year olds. Lower graph show the rate of deaths per 100,000 people in the same age groups on a logarithmic scale. Motor vehicle and firearm accidents look consistently around 15/100,000 regardless of age. Poisoning deaths have a broad peak around 45/100,000 from age 25-65. Cancer and heart disease rise continuously to peak around 2000/100,000 among 85+.
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[–] 4 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Huge gap there on that second graph. Hiding a massive spike, are we?

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  • [–] [S] 5 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    That gap is the 5-14 year olds, and they mostly die from machinery accidents, septicemia, and "other" unspecified diseases. Not sure what makes the so resilient to car crashes. They're apparently too young to participate in gun violence (the actual number is 0.02 per 100,000), and in some happy range where they've survived the infant/perinatal cancers, but juvenile cancers haven't had time to be fatal yet.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Car crashes is almost certainly due to the regulations on car safety - particularly that none of them are sitting in the front seat or driver, and young people in general have an easier time recovering from any injury.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    I wonder if this includes people who are hit by a car without sitting inside of one.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 1 year ago (3 children)

    The tables include deaths from "Other pedal cyclist" and "Other pedestrian" which sound to me like cyclists/pedestrians killed by other than motor vehicle, so my guess is: yes, "Motor vehicle traffic" probably does include people killed by cars without sitting inside one.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (2 children)

    Interesting, thanks. I must admit I briefly misread the plot, and was confused why numbers were so low for those under 18, but I got it mixed up with the heart disease line... Oops.

    But then I don't really see the puzzle for kids aged 5-14 at all. Half the group is too young to play near traffic, and instead stays home or in playgrounds. They don't have a driver's license and they largely sit in the back seat. And they are less likely to be out and about in the evening and nighttime when the drunk drivers get out on the roads. And they very rarely drive motorcycles, and I suspect folks with kids in the car are less likely to drive drunk or speed.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I had a column misalignment issue where the 5-14 were zero for both guns and cars (and 10% for 'machinery'). Lower than other age groups does make a lot of sense, but actually zero...I should have double checked that before posting. You probably didn't misread the plot: Lemmy lets you edit the posted graphics, so I did :)

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 1 year ago

    updating to say I had the 5-14 year-old-column out of alignment, which threw off the 5-14 year-old cause of death stats. They're still lower than even slightly older groups, but not as dramatic. Post edited with new graphs.

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