{"id":5708,"date":"2024-06-26T13:43:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-26T13:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eudailytimes.com\/latvia-has-eus-third-highest-rate-of-deaths-from-cancer-article\/"},"modified":"2024-06-26T13:43:00","modified_gmt":"2024-06-26T13:43:00","slug":"latvia-has-eus-third-highest-rate-of-deaths-from-cancer-article","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eudailytimes.com\/nl\/latvia-has-eus-third-highest-rate-of-deaths-from-cancer-article\/","title":{"rendered":"Latvia has EU&#8217;s third-highest rate of deaths from cancer \/ Article"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>In the EU, the\u00a0<a gloss-content=\"The &lt;b&gt;standardised death rate&lt;\/b&gt;, abbreviated as &lt;b&gt;SDR&lt;\/b&gt;, is the death rate of a population adjusted to a standard ...\" gloss-idx=\"3\" href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eurostat\/statistics-explained\/index.php?title=Glossary:Standardised_death_rate\" original-title=\"Glossary:Standardised death rate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">standardised death rate<\/a>\u00a0for cancer was 235.4 per 100\u00a0000 inhabitants in 2021, lower than the rate for circulatory diseases, but higher than the rate for other causes of death, including COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>In Latvia, the cancer death rate was 283.5 per 100 000 inhabitants, behind only Croatia (308.2) and Hungary (309.9).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>However, Latvia&#8217;s figure\u00a0is\u00a0shaped by the large difference between the rates for women (205.6) and men (435.8). The figure for men is the highest in the EU, with only Estonia (412.1) and Hungary (415.0) also recording a rate in excess of&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/eng.lsm.lv\/article\/society\/health\/06.06.2024-latvia-has-eus-third-highest-rate-of-deaths-from-cancer.a556420\/\">Bron<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the EU, the\u00a0standardised death rate\u00a0for cancer was 235.4 per 100\u00a0000 inhabitants in 2021, lower than the rate for circulatory diseases, but higher than the rate for other causes of death, including COVID-19. In Latvia, the cancer death rate was 283.5 per 100 000 inhabitants, behind only Croatia (308.2) and Hungary (309.9).\u00a0 However, Latvia&#8217;s figure\u00a0is\u00a0shaped [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"jnews_post_split":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latvia-nl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eudailytimes.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eudailytimes.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eudailytimes.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eudailytimes.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eudailytimes.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/eudailytimes.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5708\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eudailytimes.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eudailytimes.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eudailytimes.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}