<div dir="ltr">Good day all:<div><br></div><div>Interesting data from the MMWR on </div><div><br></div><h1 style="margin:0px 0px 10px;font-family:Lato,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-weight:normal;line-height:30px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:22px">Occupational Patterns in Unintentional and Undetermined Drug-Involved and Opioid-Involved Overdose Deaths — United States, 2007–2012</h1><div><br></div><div><div><a href="https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/67/wr/mm6733a3.htm">https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/67/wr/mm6733a3.htm</a></div><div><br></div><div>Interesting highlights:</div><div><br></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Lato,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">The analysis identified 57,810 drug overdose deaths within the study population (1.4% of the 4,024,086 deaths). The majority of drug overdose deaths were among persons who were male (61.8%), white (89.8%), and aged 45–54 years (30.1%) or 35–44 years (24.1%).</span><span style="font-size:10.5px;line-height:0;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Lato,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">¶¶</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Lato,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"> PMRs from drug overdose were significantly above 1.00 for the following six occupation groups: 1) construction (1.25); 2) extraction (1.16); 3) food preparation and serving (1.11); 4) health care practitioners and technical (1.16); 5) health care support (1.18); and 6) personal care and service (1.10) (</span><a id="gmail-T1_up" class="gmail-tp-link-policy" style="color:rgb(7,82,144);text-decoration-line:underline;font-family:Lato,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"></a><a href="https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/67/wr/mm6733a3.htm#T1_down" class="gmail-tp-link-policy" style="color:rgb(7,82,144);font-family:Lato,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">Table 1</a><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Lato,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">). PMRs from drug overdose were also significantly elevated among deaths where the usual occupation was unpaid/unemployed (1.10)*** </span> </div><div><br></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Lato,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">Because the PMRs for all opioid types within the construction occupation group were elevated, a subanalysis further examined opioid-related deaths in this group. The analysis identified 7,402 drug overdose deaths among persons aged ≥18 years within the construction occupation group. The majority of decedents were male (96.7%), white (92.6%), and aged 45–54 years (30.4%) or 35–44 years (26.9%).</span></div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div><br></div><div>Ed <br></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div> </div>
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