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| 1 |  | Figure 2-169 Age-adjusted mortality rates for malignant mesothelioma in U.S. residents aged 15 or older by State, 1999. The highest malignant mesothelioma mortality rates occurred in Alaska and Maine in 1999. The rates for each of these States were more than twice the national rate of 11.7 per million. States in the next highest rate group were widely dispersed, with a concentration on the eastern seaboard and in the West. The rates in these States were nearly 1.5 to 2 times the U.S. rate. (Source: NIOSH [2002e].)
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| 2 |  | Figure 2-176 Age-adjusted mortality rates for asbestosis in U.S. residents aged 15 or older by State, 1990-1999. Delaware and West Virginia had the highest asbestosis mortality rates during 1990-1999. States in the second highest mortality rate category were predominantly coastal States. All States in these two groupings had asbestosis mortality rates above the U.S. rate of 5.4 per million. (Source: NIOSH [2002f].)
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| 3 |  | Figure 2-179 Age-adjusted mortality rates for byssinosis in U.S. residents aged 15 or older by State, 1990-1999. States with the highest byssinosis mortality rates during 1990-1999 were located predominantly in the Southeast in the textile-producing States. During this period, more than half of byssinosis decedents were residents of North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia. (Source: NIOSH [2002f].)
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| 4 |  | Figure 2-184 Age-adjusted mortality rates for CWP in U.S. residents aged 15 or older by State, 1990-1999. West Virginia had the highest CWP mortality rate-nearly 20 times the rate of 7.56 per million for the entire United States. The second highest rate category included the Appalachian and western coal mining regions. (Source: NIOSH [2002f].)
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| 5 |  | Figure 2-193 Age-adjusted mortality rates for silicosis in U.S. residents aged 15 or older by State, 1990-1997. States with the highest silicosis mortality rates during 1990-1999 were regionally dispersed: West Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Vermont make up the eastern cluster; and Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah constitute the western cluster. Mortality rates for each of these States were at least three times the rate of 1.21 per million for the entire United States. (Source: NIOSH [2002f].)
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| 6 |  | Figure 4-19 Numbers of deaths, crude mortality rates, and age-adjusted mortality rates for U.S. residents aged 15 or older with coal workers' pneumoconiosis recorded as an underlying or contributing cause on the death certificate, 1968-1999. After passage of the Federal Coal Mine Health and Safety Act of 1969, an increase occurred in the number and rate of deaths reported with coal workers' pneumoconiosis (black lung) recorded on the death certificate. The number and rate of these deaths were at their lowest in 1999, the last year for which data are currently available. The number decreased from 2,870 in 1972 to 1,003 in 1999. In 1972, the crude and age-adjusted mortality rates were 18.9 and 21.2 per million population, respectively. Both rates declined to 4.7 per million in 1999. (Note: Age-adjusted mortality rates are standardized to the year 2000 standard population.) (Sources: NCHS [2002]; NIOSH [2002].)
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