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Table 16 B Leading Causes of African American Deaths by Selected Age Groups 2008 Resident Data |
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| Age Group | Number | Percent | |
| Under 1 | Total | 27 | |
| Certain Conditions Originating in the Perinatal Period | 9 | 33.3 | |
| Sudden Infant Death Syndrome | 6 | 22.2 | |
| Unintentional Injuries | 4 | 14.8 | |
| Congenital Malformations, Deformations and Chromosomal Abnormalities | 2 | 7.4 | |
| Homicide and Legal Intervention | 2 | 7.4 | |
| All Infective and Parasitic Diseases | 1 | 3.7 | |
| All Other Diseases | 1 | 3.7 | |
| Chronic Lower Respiratory Diseases | 1 | 3.7 | |
| Influenza and Pneumonia | 1 | 3.7 | |
| 1 – 4 | Total | 4 | |
| Unintentional Injuries | 2 | 50.0 | |
| All Other Diseases | 1 | 25.0 | |
| Congenital Malformations, Deformations and Chromosomal Abnormalities | 1 | 25.0 | |
| 5 – 14 | Total | 2 | |
| Symptoms, Signs and Abnormal Findings, Not Elsewhere Classified | 1 | 50.0 | |
| Unintentional Injuries | 1 | 50.0 | |
| 15 – 24 | Total | 17 | |
| Unintentional Injuries | 5 | 29.4 | |
| Homicide and Legal Intervention | 4 | 23.5 | |
| Malignant Neoplasms | 2 | 11.8 | |
| All Other Diseases | 1 | 5.9 | |
| All Other External Causes | 1 | 5.9 | |
| Anemias | 1 | 5.9 | |
| Chronic Lower Respiratory Diseases | 1 | 5.9 | |
| Diseases of the Heart | 1 | 5.9 | |
| Suicides | 1 | 5.9 | |
| 25 – 44 | Total | 52 | |
| All Other Diseases | 11 | 21.2 | |
| Homicide and Legal Intervention | 9 | 17.3 | |
| Unintentional Injuries | 8 | 15.4 | |
| Diseases of the Heart | 7 | 13.5 | |
| Malignant Neoplasms | 7 | 13.5 | |
| Suicides | 5 | 9.6 | |
| 45 – 54 | Total | 68 | |
| Diseases of the Heart | 20 | 29.4 | |
| Malignant Neoplasms | 14 | 20.6 | |
| Diabetes Mellitus | 6 | 8.8 | |
| Chronic Lower Respiratory Diseases | 4 | 5.9 | |
| All Other Diseases | 3 | 4.4 | |
| Essential Hypertension and Hypertensive Renal Disease | 3 | 4.4 | |
| Homicide and Legal Intervention | 3 | 4.4 | |
| 55 – 64 | Total | 59 | |
| Diseases of the Heart | 13 | 22.0 | |
| Malignant Neoplasms | 13 | 22.0 | |
| All Other Diseases | 5 | 8.5 | |
| Cerebrovascular Diseases | 5 | 8.5 | |
| Diabetes Mellitus | 5 | 8.5 | |
| Unintentional Injuries | 5 | 8.5 | |
| All Infective and Parasitic Diseases | 4 | 6.8 | |
| Chronic Lower Respiratory Diseases | 3 | 5.1 | |
| Symptoms, Signs and Abnormal Findings, Not Elsewhere Classified | 2 | 3.4 | |
| 65 – 84 | Total | 154 | |
| Malignant Neoplasms | 48 | 31.2 | |
| Diseases of the Heart | 31 | 20.1 | |
| All Other Diseases | 14 | 9.1 | |
| Chronic Lower Respiratory Diseases | 13 | 8.4 | |
| Cerebrovascular Diseases | 8 | 5.2 | |
| 85 and | Total | 73 | |
| Over | Diseases of the Heart | 27 | 37.0 |
| Malignant Neoplasms | 10 | 13.7 | |
| Alzheimer's Disease | 9 | 12.3 | |
| All Other Diseases | 7 | 9.6 | |
| Chronic Lower Respiratory Diseases | 5 | 6.8 | |