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Deaths: Final Data for 2018 pdf icon[PDF – 2 MB] Supplemental Tables pdf icon[PDF – 3 MB] (1/2021)
Mortality in the United States, 2019 (12/2020)
Drug Overdose Deaths in the United States, 1999–2019 (12/2020)
Increases in Prepregnancy Obesity: United States, 2016–2019 (11/2020)
United States Life Tables, 2018 pdf icon[PDF – 2 KB] (11/2020)
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