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Deaths due to Kidney Disease by County, New Jersey, 2018-2020
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Deaths due to Kidney Disease by County, New Jersey, 2018-2020
Why Is This Important?
Kidney disease was the tenth leading cause of death among New Jersey residents and in the nation as a whole in 2020.
Definition
Deaths with nephritis, nephrotic syndrome, and nephrosis (kidney disease) as the underlying cause of death. ICD-10 codes: N00-N07, N17-N19, N25-N27
Data Notes
Data have been age-adjusted to the U.S. 2000 standard population.Data Sources
- Death Certificate Database, Office of Vital Statistics and Registry, New Jersey Department of Health
(https://www.nj.gov/health/vital/) - Population Estimates, State Data Center, New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development
(https://www.nj.gov/labor/labormarketinformation/demographics/population-household-estimates/) - Underlying Cause of Death, CDC WONDER On-line Database, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
(https://wonder.cdc.gov/Deaths-by-Underlying-Cause.html)
How the Measure is Calculated
Numerator:
Number of deaths due to kidney diseaseDenominator:
Estimated number of persons in the population
Related Health Objectives and Indicators
Healthy NJ 2020 Objective CKD-1
NJ Target: Reduce kidney disease deaths to 12.9 per 100,000 population (age-adjusted) for the total population, 6.4 for Asians, 22.6 for Blacks, 9 for Hispanics, and 12.2 for Whites by 2020.0https://www.nj.gov/health/chs/hnj2020/topics/chronic-kidney-disease.shtml