Certain less common causes of death are more prevalent in some states than others. ... Now, a new map shows these so-called "most distinctive" causes of death for each state.

A study published in December in the journal JAMA revealed the major causes of death for counties across the United States. For the study, researchers analyzed death records from the National ...

The most common killers in the United States are well known — heart disease and cancer. But there are other, less common causes of death that are actually much more typical in certain states ...

— -- A new map has revealed the most distinctive causes of death for each state, from black lung in coal-heavy states to influenza in a few cold-weather states. The map was created by looking ...

There's no getting around the strangeness of a map that shows the most distinctive cause of death in each of our 50 states and the District of Columbia. In Texas, it's tuberculosis. In Maine, it's the ...

A death map released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows the most distinctive causes of fatalities in each state. Heart disease and cancer are the leading causes of mortality ...

CDC Releases Map of Most Distinct Causes of Death in U.S. May 23, 2015 ...

This map highlights the leading cause of early death internationally, and what this says about these countries and their citizens. Diarrhea And Drifting: Map Shows No. 1 Cause Of Death In Each Country ...

The Centers for Disease Control has released an interesting graphic that reveals the "most distinctive" cause of death in each state. By "distinctive," they essentially mean where the rate of the ...

Where you live could determine how you die. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have released a list of most distinct causes of death in every state in the U.S. The list shows which ...

In Oregon, the state's rate of death by "legal intervention" is higher than anywhere else in the country, likely due to the state's right-to-die law, which has allowed assisted suicide in the U.S ...