Surveillance Summaries: Potentially Excess Deaths from the Five Leading Causes of Death in Metropolitan and Nonmetropolitan Counties - United States, 2010-2017

Published on November 7, 2019

Nonmetropolitan, or rural, counties have more preventable deaths from cancer, heart disease, unintentional injury, chronic lower respiratory disease, and stroke than metropolitan, or urban, counties.

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