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		USA causes of death by age and gender (worldlifeexpectancy.com)
		3 points by lostmsu 55 days ago \| hide \| past \| favorite \| 3 comments

DaveZale 55 days ago | [–]

thank you for this. A few hours ago a similar post on HN from world of data was shared, this one has more "granularity" w/r/t age rankings

abstractspoon 55 days ago | [–]

Poisonings?! What does that cover?

rkomorn 55 days ago | [–]

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/ice/acute_poisoning_deaths.pdf

Looks like drugs (so, overdose deaths) would be one of the main things.

(Edit: not sure why the paper's about the UK, but assuming it's relevant to the US CDC since it's on their site)

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