Fayette County was among the highest counties in Indiana for its rate of death among residents in 2013, according to statistics released last month by the Indiana State Department of Health.
The ISDH published its 2013 Indiana Mortality Reports in February, which shows that Fayette County had the third-highest death rate among its residents for 2013, trailing only Scott and Crawford counties, and the largest rate of death for counties within the News-Examiner’s coverage area.
Statistics show that Fayette County had a age-adjusted rate of death of 1,051.38 people, per 100,000, in 2013, with only Scott County – a rate of 1,102.42 – and Crawford County – 1,084.87 – being higher.
In fact, Fayette County was one of only four Indiana counties – with Scott, Crawford and Union being the others – which had an age-adjusted rate of death which cracked the 1,000 mark in 2013, according to the ISDH mortality reports.
That mark placed the county well above the state’s overall death rate for 2013, which was 823.43 people per 100,000.
The leading cause which contributed to that rate for Fayette County, according to the ISDH report, was major cardiovascular diseases. Fayette County’s rate of death from major cardiovascular diseases was 282.95 out of every 100,000, also above the state’s average of 243.68 out of every 100,000.
The majority of those deaths attributed to major cardiovascular diseases came from diseases of the heart, for which the county had a rate of 244.57 out of every 100,000, far outpacing the state rate of 185.48 out of every 100,000.
The ISDH reports also show that cancer was the second-highest cause of death within Fayette County in 2013, as the county’s rate was 186.16 out of every 100,000, slightly above the state’s rate of 178.68 out of every 100,000.
The predominant type of cancer which caused death within Fayette County in 2013, according to the ISDH reports, was cancer of the “trachea, bronchus and lung,” followed by cancer of the urinary tract and leukemia.
Other causes of death in Fayette County for 2013, which ranked above the state’s rate, were chronic liver disease, kidney disease, chronic respirator diseases, diabetes – which the county’s rate more than doubled the state’s overall rate – motor vehicle accidents and suicide.
In Union County, which had the second-highest rate of death in 2013 in the area – 1,020.93 out of every 100,000 – the leading cause of death, much like Fayette County, was major cardiovascular diseases.
Union County had a rate of 362.86 out of every 100,000 who died of a major cardiovascular disease, with the majority of that rate attributed to diseases of the heart.
Cancer, as it was for Fayette County, was also the second-highest cause of death within Union County, as the county had a rate of 189.78 out of every 100,000. The bulk of those deaths due to cancer in Union County came from breast cancer.
Union County also had a rate of death in 2013, due to suicide, of more than two and a half times greater than the state’s rate of 14.15 out of every 100,000. Union County’s sat at 37.82 out of every 100,000.
The ISDH mortality reports also show that for Franklin and Wayne counties, the leading cause of death in 2013 was major cardiovascular diseases – predominantly diseases of the heart.
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